August Nölck

August Nölck (né August Friedrich Robert Nölck; 9 January 1862 in Lübeck – 12 December 1928 in Dresden) was a prolific composer, virtuoso cellist, pianist, and music educator of the German School of Romanticism. He produced over 250 music pieces, many of which have endured and are performed today. Nölck is well known for his cello repertoire.

Styles As professor of cello and piano, Nölck composed over three hundred works that included concertos, whims, waltzes, concertina, gavottes, minuets, mazurkas, funeral marches, and the like. However, due to the two World Wars in Germany and political divisions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, only his works produced in Venezuela have been recovered.

Nölck was part of the Dresden School of cello playing, which included Friedrich Wilhelm Grützmacher, who formed a foundation for the modern school of technique represented by Pablo Casals, Emanuel Feuermann, and others. Nölck's music reflects the Romantic styles of Brahms, Schumann, and Mendelssohn.