Philip Robert Abas (more rarely Abbas ; born January 20, 1886 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ; † September 10, 1945 in Colorado Springs ) was a Dutch cellist , gambist and music teacher. Philip Abas was born in Amsterdam in 1886 as the sixth of seven children of diamond cutter Meijer Abraham Abas (1855–1921) and his wife Rachel Salomon Rodrigues de Miranda (1856–1937).  On April 16, 1908 he married in Brighton three years younger than Englishwoman Beatrice Eleanor Sanderson, daughter one candle puller . The first daughter Isobel Rodrigues Abas was born in 1909, followed in 1912 by Beatrice Frances Abas  In September 1914, the family traveled from Liverpool to New York on board the RMS Olympic , as Abas was going to perform a number of times there. During this stay, Abas' wife became pregnant for the third time. Since she wanted to give birth to the child with her family in England, she went with her two daughters on May 1, 1915 in New York on board the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania , which was supposed to arrive in Liverpool a week later. However, on May 7, the ship was sunk by a German submarine . 1200 people were killed, including Beatrice Abas and the two children. In the same year Abas married Janet Thomson Levens for the second time, with whom he settled in Detroit (Michigan). Their son, Philip Robert Abas, was born in New York in 1918. Philip Abas studied at the Conservatory in Amsterdam with Isaäc Mossel (1870–1923) and graduated from there. At the age of 17 he was solo cellist in Aachen.  He then lived in London.  Here he gave several concerts as 1904 in the Queen's Hall and in June 1906 in Steinway Hall in London, in which he op the Rococo Variations in A major. 33 by Tchaikovsky recited. Among other things, he played with the conductor Henry Wood . 1907 Abas was the first cellist in the Brighton Municipal Orchestra.  From October 1907 to May 1908 he made his first concert tour through Canada and the United States.  For the next three years he was the first cellist in the orchestras of Nice , Aix-les-Baines and Biarritz . During this time he has played with Vincent d'Indy .  From 1913 he lived in Bournemouth. Until 1916 he was a member of the Bournemouth Winter Garden Symphony .  Abas gave concerts in England until August 1916, so on August 2, 1916 at the Devonshire Park Theater in Eastbourne.  He then emigrated to the United States. In the season 1916/1917 Abas was cellist on the first desk of the Philadelphia Orchestra   In September 1918 he was introduced as a new member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra . In December 1918, he received this operation during Detroit Symphony Orchestra presented.  On 15 December 1918 he has performed as principal cellist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch the first cello concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns .  1918-1919 he played in the Rivoli Theater Orchestra on Broadway in New York City.  Until 1925 he was the first cellist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and, alongside the violinists Ilya Scholnik, William Grafing King and the violist Clarence Evans, later Herman Kolodkin, a member of the Detroit Symphony String Quartet, which was complemented by the harpist Ostrowska to the Detroit Detroit Symphonique Ensemble .  In 1926 he became a lecturer in the cello department of the Miami Conservatory.  In September 1928 he became head of the cello department and the chamber music department at the Michigan State Institute of Music at Michigan State University.  Abas also took over the management of the cello department at Michigan State College. On January 12, 1929 he married the pianist and harpsichordist Vivian Trivette Parke.  Their son Leonard Parke studied with Abas in Detroit cello. Together they performed, complemented by other musicians, as the Philip Abas Ensemble. In this context, Abas also played the viola da gamba in addition to the cello. They often wore historical costumes at their concerts.  During this time Abas gave concerts in Kansas and Nebraska. In the 1930s he taught at the Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, Kansas. In the 1940s he settled in Santa Barbara , California.  Here he conducted the Tri-County Chorus.  A son died in World War II . Abas died of a myocardial infarction in Colorado Springs on September 10, 1945 . The cellists Marcus Adeney , Wynn van Cronk, Arthur Bachmann and Ione Bryce were his students.