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David Finckel

(1951) Cellist

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David Finckel is a cellist.

Quick Facts About David Finckel

Born: December 6, 1951
Profession: Cellist

About David Finckel

[Wikidata] American cellist... | [Wikipedia] David Finckel is an American cellist and influential figure in the classical music world. The cellist for the Emerson String Quartet from 1979 to 2013, Finckel is currently the co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, co-founder of the independent record label

Quotes by David Finckel

We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but…

Creative

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Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on…

Able

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I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber…

Chamber

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The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's…

Community

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When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on…

Composer

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If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them -…

Around the world

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Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making…

Art

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A lot of my musical education was done simply by listening. If you really want to excel on your instrument, it's almost…

Done

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I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance…

Alive

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I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the…

Art

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Even if you are a pianist, your concerto repertoire is very limited compared to what your chamber repertoire would be if you…

Chamber

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For Rostropovich, every single note that he played had a special kind of human meaning behind it. And this was something that…

Behinds

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Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still…

Changed

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The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were…

Bottles

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The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes…

Age

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I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate…

Audience

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