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Henri Casadesus
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Henri Casadesus (September 30, 1879 – May 31, 1947) was a violist and music publisher. He was the brother of Marius Casadesus, uncle of the famous pianist Robert Casadesus, and grand-uncle of Jean Casadesus. He founded the Society of Ancient Instruments with Camille Saint-Saëns in 1901. The society, which operated between 1901 and 1939, was a quintet of performers who used obsolete instruments such as the viola da gamba, or Casadesus's own instrument, the viola d'amore. The quintet was also notable in its day for premiering rediscovered works by long-dead composers. It was later discovered that Casadesus and his brothers, notably Marius Casadesus, wrote these works. The Adélaïde Concerto, allegedly by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Henri but is actually by Marius. However, Henri is thought to have been the author of a "Concerto in D Major for Viola" ascribed to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, described by Rachel W. Wade in Appendix B of her Keyboard Concertos of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1981), pp. 279-82. This concerto appeared in 1911 in a Russian edition, allegedly "transcribed...for small orchestra by Maximilian Steinberg," and was subsequently performed by conductors such as Darius Milhaud and Serge Koussevitsky, and recorded by both Felix Prohaska and Eugene Ormandy. "Thus," Wade wrote in 1981, "at the present time, the most frequently recorded concerto of C.P.E. Bach is a spurious one." Henri is also cre
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Cello Concerto in C Minor (spuriously attrib. to Johann Christian Bach): I. Allegro molto ma maestoso
4562Cello Concerto in C Minor (spuriously attrib. to Johann Christian Bach): III. Allegro molto energico
1823Cello Concerto in C Minor (spuriously attrib. to Johann Christian Bach): II. Adagio molto espressivo
1594Viola Concerto in B Minor (Arr. H. Casadesus for Chamber Orchestra): I. Allegro moderato
1155Cello Concerto in C Minor, YC98 (Attrib. J.C. Bach): I. Allegro molto ma maestoso
566Viola Concerto in the Style of Handel: I. Allegro moderato
487Viola Concerto in B Minor (Arr. H. Casadesus for Chamber Orchestra): III. Allegro molto
468Cello Concerto in C Minor (spuriously attrib. to Johann Christian Bach): I. Allegro
409Viola Concerto in B Minor (Arr. H. Casadesus for Chamber Orchestra): II. Andante ma non troppo
4010Viola Concerto in the Style of Handel: II. Andante ma non troppo
37albums
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Casadesus / Boccherini: Cello Concertos / Bach, J.C.: Sinfonia Concertante
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Tranquillity – A Compilation Of Beautiful Slow Movements
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Moscow Virtuosi: Handel, Stamitz, Britten & Bottesini
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William Primrose Collection, Vol. 4
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Berlioz: Harold in Italy - Walton: Viola Concerto
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Complete Tranquility
Adam Klocek
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Yuri Gandelsman: Casadesus, Stamitz & Britten
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Franz Waxman Conducts, Vol. 3
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Saint-Saëns / Van Waefelghem / Casadesus / Fauré: the Art of Viola d'Amore
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Haydn, Bach & Janson: Cello Concertos
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Henri Casadesus: Preludes Choisis Vol. 2/viola D'amore