CHASE

• His father (member court orchestra in Dessau) - ???Frédéric Grützmacher, pianist, d. 1862??? Revue et gazette musicale de Paris, 29 (1862), pp. 98-100 
• Carl Drechsler (1800-1873; a pupil of Dotzauer – Drechsler was also member Dessau court orchestra) 

Associates: 

• Ferdinand David (Leipzig) 
• Felix Mendelssohn (with whom he visited Clara Schumann on her birthday in 1843, aged 11) 
• Robert and Clara Schumann 
• Bernhard Cossmann (Leipzig) 
• Joseph Joachim (Leipzig) 
• Julius Rietz (Leipzig and Dresden) 
• Carl Davidoff 
• Leopold Auer 
• August Wilhelmj 

Professional appointments: 

• Member, Leipzig Gewandhaus and Euterpe (choral society) orchestras, 1848 
• Principal cello, Leipzig Gewandhaus, 1850-1860 
• Professor, Leipzig Conservatoire, 185?-1860 
• Principal cello, Dresden Hofkapelle, 1860-1877; also ‘Kammermusikus’ in Meinigen 1870, and described as ‘of Meiningen’ in 1872 
• Professor, Dresden Conservatoire, 1866-1903 

Chamber ensembles: - 

• Gewandhaus Quartet with David 
• Misc. quartets with Auer, Wilhelmj 
• Chamber music with Carl Reinecke 

Selected pupils:   

• Leopold Grützmacher (1835-1900, his younger brother, who also studied with Drechsler and also played in the Gewandhaus) 
• Emil Hegar 
• Wilhelm Fitzenhagen 
• Josef Werner 
• Johannes Klingenberg 
• Oskar Brückner 
• Dinan Alexanian 

Editions 

• C.P.E. Bach: Viola da gamba sonata (G minor - Wq. 88, H510) (C.F. Peters, 1881). - 
• J.S. Bach: Cello suites (two editions, both C.F. Peters; 1866 and 1867). - 
• Beethoven: Cello sonatas (C.F. Peters, c. 1868 and c. 1894). -
•  Beethoven: Horn sonata, Op 17, arr. cello (Breitkopf u. Härtel, 1867). - 
• Beethoven: Romance, Op 40, arr. cello (Breitkopf u. Härtel, c. 1875). - 
• Boccherini: Cello sonata in G (Senff, 1872). - 
• Mendelssohn: Cello sonatas (C.F Peters, 1878). - 
• Molique: Cello concerto (Breitkopf u. Härtel, 1900). - 
• Schumann: Cello concerto (C.F. Peters, 1887). - 
• Schumann: Sonata Op 121, arr. cello and piano (Breitkopf u. Härtel, 1874; Volksausgabe 1895).