Ernest Appy

Charles Ernest Appy (25 October 1834, in The Hague – 2 August 1895, in Kansas City^[1]) was an American cellist and composer of French heritage.

He began to learn piano at the age of 14, but later switched to learning cello. Appy was an associate of Clara Schumann, Alfred Jaëll and Ernst Lübeck during his stay in Europe through the Dutch violinist, Frans Coenen, along with being a professor at Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst. In addition to his musical performances, he opened music schools in Amsterdam and in Kansas City. Appy was later the cello instructor for Johannes Smith, who played for Richard Sahla's Sahla Quartet.^[2][3]

One of his descendants installed a tombstone of his in 2013.^[4][5]

• Campbell, Margaret (2011-05-19). The Great Cellists. London: Faber and Faber. p. 29. ISBN 978-0571278008.
• von Wasielewski, Wilhelm Joseph (1894). The Violoncello and Its History. London: Novello, Limited. p. 185-186.
• "Appy (Charles) papers". Online Archive of California.
• Straeten, Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der (1914). History of the Violoncello, the Viol Da Gamba, Their Precursors and Collateral Instruments : with Biographies of All the Most Eminent Players of Every Country. London: William Reeves Bookseller Ltd. p. 563-564.
• The Cambridge Companion to the Cello. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. p. 65-66. ISBN 978-0521629287.

• Free scores by Ernest Appy at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)