November 22, 1902
Emanuel Feuermann is born in Kolomea, Galicia.

1909
The family moves to Vienna, where the young Feuermann begins studying the cello.

1914
At the age of eleven, Feuermann gives his first solo concert. This is followed by concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

1916–1918
Feuermann goes to Leipzig to continue his studies with Julius Klengel, cellist at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.

1918
The Gürzenich Conservatory in Cologne appoints the sixteen-year-old Feuermann as head of the cello class. He is engaged for concerts with the Gürzenich Quartet and as principal cellist of the Gürzenich Orchestra.

1921
Feuermann meets prominent musicians such as Casals, Furtwängler, and Hindemith at house concerts hosted by the Reifenberg family, patrons of the arts in Cologne. He records his first records for Parlophon, followed by additional recordings in 1926 and 1929.

1929
Feuermann is appointed professor of cello at the Berlin College of Music—now the Berlin University of the Arts. He begins giving solo recitals, accompanied on the piano by his sister Sophie.

March 1933
Along with other Jewish faculty members, Feuermann is suspended from his position at the Berlin Conservatory for “artistic reasons.” Shortly thereafter, he is dismissed as an “intolerable Jew,” despite protests from his Jewish and non-Jewish students.

July 1933

Feuermann leaves Berlin and embarks on concert tours to North and South America, the Near and Far East. His stops include Java, Batavia, Singapore, Japan, China, Brazil, and the United States. Among others, he performs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

April 1934
Feuermann returns to Europe to undergo what was supposed to be a routine hernia operation. Only a special treatment method saves his life.

June 1935
Feuermann becomes engaged to Eva Reifenberg. They marry in October of the same year.

1937–1938
The Feuermanns live in Zurich before emigrating permanently to the United States, where Feuermann leads summer music courses in Los Angeles alongside Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose and teaches at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.

1941
The United States enters the war, and Feuermann volunteers to perform for the troops.

May 25, 1942
Feuermann dies unexpectedly at the age of thirty-nine as a result of surgery.