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Samuel Mayes
Samuel Mayes is credited on 167 releases across 30 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2013 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
167
Pressings credited
30
Albums
7
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Samuel Houston Mayes (August 11, 1917 – August 24, 1990), was an American cellist. Mayes was born in St. Louis, Missouri and began studying the cello from the age of four. When he turned 12 he went to Philadelphia where attended Curtis Institute of Music under a direction of Felix Salmond, and later on, joined its Orchestra where he became the principal cellist in 1936. He held that position in 1948 at the Boston Symphony Orchestra till he returned to Philly by 1964. He joined Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1973 abandoning Philadelphia one that way and the two years later became a faculty member at the University of Michigan. He was 79 years of age when he died in Mesa, Arizona.
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Credited work
167 releases · 30 albums · active 1950–2013
- Performance · 176
- Other credits · 8
Studios: Academy Of Music, Philadelphia · Symphony Hall, Boston · Berkshire Music Center · Scottish Rite Cathedral
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Mozart
- Brahms
- Marian Anderson
- Eugene Ormandy
- Beethoven
- Phillip Kaplan
- Rimsky-Korsakov
- Ormandy
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