violoncellist

• “Then a violoncellist, whose instrument used to sob, and who openly declared that of all the ladies of his acquaintance the only one who could accompany him was Olga”

  The Wife

• “He went with his friend, the violoncellist, Antonio Nardini, to Prague, where they both accepted a position in the orchestra of Count Kinsky.”

  Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians

• “Then a violoncellist, whose instrument used to sob, and who openly declared that of all the ladies of his acquaintance the only one who could accompany him was Olga Ivanovna; then there was a literary man, young but already well known, who had written stories, novels, and plays.”

  The Grasshopper

• “An actor from the Dramatic Theatre recited, a singer sang, artists sketched in the albums of which Olga Ivanovna had a great number, the violoncellist played, and the hostess herself sketched, carved, sang, and played accompaniments.”

  The Grasshopper

• “The violoncellist played, a singer sang, and invariably at half-past eleven the door leading to the dining-room opened and Dymov, smiling, said:”

  The Grasshopper

• “By the way, that young fellow over there who said that is a violoncellist.”

  The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story

• “Mr. Werner, 'Court-violoncellist to the King of Paraguay.”

  Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay

• “Bernhard Romberg was a distinguished violoncellist.”

  Beethoven A Character Study

• “(Said of the violoncellist Duport, the favorite of King William I, of Prussia, in 1789, when Mozart was in Berlin and Duport asked him to speak French.) 112.”

  Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words

• “I found a violoncellist there and entered into conversation with him: his eyes reminded me strangely of my father's; he told me the story of his life.”

  Jean-Christophe Journey's End

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