ALWIN SCHRÖDER, brother to Karl Schröder,[124] was born at Neuhaldensleben in 1855, where his father was music director. He devoted himself to Violoncello playing only, after he had pursued from the seventh year of his age piano, violin, and tenor playing, and had attained to remarkable proficiency in them. In his youth he was engaged in several orchestras in Berlin as tenor performer. During a visit to his father’s house he conceived a great desire to take up the Violoncello, and practised on his own account the Cello solo in the Introduction to Rossini’s “Tell” Overture. He succeeded so well that his brother Karl, to whom he played it, urged him to occupy himself further with the Violoncello, which he did. In 1875 he had reached such a degree of proficiency that he was engaged in the autumn of the same year as first Cellist for the Liebig Orchestra. This position he exchanged for one in the Fliegen Band. After he had been a member of the Laube Kapelle, he chose Leipsic as his place of residence in 1880, and occasionally took his brother Karl’s work in the orchestra. When the latter accepted the post of Royal Kapellmeister in Sondershausen, he was appointed in his brother’s stead, together with Klengel,[125] as first Cellist of the Gewandhaus and Theatre Orchestra, as well as teacher in the Conservatoire. Besides this, he is permanent member of the Peter String Quartet. He received the title of Chamber Virtuoso from the reigning Prince of Sondershausen. His playing is famous for its clever technique, fine tone, perfect accuracy, and most expressive rendering. He has been heard in the capitals of Germany, Belgium, and Russia with remarkable success. FOOTNOTES: [101] This artist was a violinist, and was born on April 27, 1767, at Vechta, in Oldenburg, and died on November 21, 1821, as Hofkapellmeister, in Gotha. [102] Bagge was a Prussian Chamberlain, who then lived in Paris, built a house there, and acted the part of an art patron. He died there in 1791. [103] This notice is by the Court Chaplain of Hohenlohe in Kirchberg, Carl Ludwig Junker. [104] Not 1820 in the Hartz, as is elsewhere said. [105] Page 77 of this work. [106] P. 78. [107] The first of these appeared at Schott’s, in Mayence; the other, for “Elementary instruction,” at Haslinger’s, Vienna. [108] Concerning Dotzauer’s violoncello compositions, Philipp Roth’s “Guide to Violoncello Literature” may be consulted with special reference to their degree of difficulty. [109] See under the violoncello players of Russia. [110] See page 72. [111] Not to be confounded with the excellent cellist, Wilhelm Lindner, who was Chamber Musician of the Grand Duchy of Baden, and died on August 19, 1887. [112] Compare p. 91. [113] He is now member of the Royal Theatre Band at Cassel. No information about him could be obtained. [114] See page 69 of this book. [115] Fétis erroneously says that Bagge was born in Bohemia, about 1815.