Guilhermina suggia biography of donald

          Guilhermina Suggia was extraordinary both as a cellist and as a woman.

        1. Guilhermina Suggia was extraordinary both as a cellist and as a woman.
        2. Letter, 29 October , Guilhermina Suggia to Donald Tovey.
        3. Guilhermina Suggia (27 June – 30 July ) was a Portuguese cellist.
        4. Guilhermina Suggia was a Portuguese cellist with an important solo career and one of the most remarkable musicians of her generation.
        5. Guilhermina Suggia () was one of the first women to make a professional career of playing the cello.

          6. Guilhermina Suggia (27 June – 30 July ) was a Portuguese cellist....

          Guilhermina Suggia

          Portuguese cellist (1885–1950)

          Guilhermina Augusta Xavier de Medim Suggia Carteado Mena, known as Guilhermina Suggia (27 June 1885 – 30 July 1950) was a Portuguese cellist.

          She studied in Paris with Pablo Casals, and built up an international reputation. She spent many years living in the United Kingdom, where she was particularly celebrated. She retired in 1939, but emerged from retirement to give concerts in Britain.

          Her last was in 1949, the year before her death.

          Suggia bequeathed her instrument to be sold to fund the Suggia Gift, an important British scholarship for young cellists.

          Kown as the queen of the cellists, Guilhermina Suggia was born in Oporto, Portugal on June 27 of Her father, Augusto Suggia, was a well-known.

          Biography

          Suggia was born in Porto to a family of Portuguese and Italian descent. Her father was a competent musician and taught her musical theory and cello. Such was her progress that by the age of 12 she was appointed principal cellist of the local orchestra, the Orpheon Portuense.[1][2] In 1904, under the patronage of Queen Maria Amélia of P