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No. 104 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Vincent Cichowicz grand master of trumpet teaching

By Wolfgang Guggenberger

Encounters Teaching
Advices from an expert brass clinician: Robert Pichaureau, Paris
No. 18 • 1977 Digitized

Advices from an expert brass clinician: Robert Pichaureau, Paris

What if everything you control is wrong? This radical approach to brass playing shifts focus away from the embouchure — back to the true origin of breath and sound.

By Alfred Willener

Technique Teaching Breathing Sound Tongue
No. 91 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Part 4

School of trumpet in Liège

By Rosario Macaluso

Practical Hints Free
No. 30 • 1980 Digitized

Part 1

Practical Hints

Built around Herbert L. Clarke’s Technical Studies, these practice routines refine flexibility, intonation and note placement through structured brass exercises.

By James Stamp

Technique Teaching Intonation Range Articulation
The attack
No. 41 • 1983 Digitized

The attack

Precision often begins with doing less, not more—a principle Louis Davidson places at the heart of trumpet playing with surprising practical consequences.

By Louis Davidson

Technique Teaching Articulation Tongue Breathing
No. 86 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Chinese musicians in Okinawa

By Fujio Nakayama

History
No. 85 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Donald Green

Trumpet player of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Encounters
No. 75 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Harry Kvebaek

a pure musical vocation

By Inger Haug

Encounters
No. 75 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Rotterdam Conservatory - ITG Conference '92

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Event
The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music
No. 47 • 1984 Digitized

Part 6

The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music

Special jazz techniques

Vibrato, half-valves, growls and shakes lead to a larger argument: jazz transformed trumpet technique, yet its contribution remained strikingly undervalued.

By Michel Laplace

History Jazz Improvisation Articulation
Renold Schilke at Frankfurt Free
No. 26 • 1979 Digitized

Renold Schilke at Frankfurt

Interview

Jean-Pierre Mathez reports on Renold Schilke’s views at Frankfurt, addressing fair organisation, maker–musician collaboration, and shifting market dynamics shaped by demand and quality criteria.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Instrument Makers Instrument making
The Unusual Trumpet in the Nürnberg Transport Museum Free
No. 52 • 1985 Digitized

The Unusual Trumpet in the Nürnberg Transport Museum

A mysterious three-coil trumpet in Nuremberg defies familiar instrument types, with no maker, date or clear explanation of how it entered a postal collection.

By Albert Hiller

Equipment Historical instruments
No. 82 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Hakan Hardenberger

Star of the north

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
The Streitwieser Foundation Historic Trumpet Museum Free
No. 39 • 1982 Digitized

The Streitwieser Foundation Historic Trumpet Museum

A private collection built through one musician's lifelong search became an unexpected center for brass history, where every instrument carries a story beyond its display.

By Sue Scott

History Equipment Historical instruments
No. 79 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Adam Zeyer

Great German trumpeter and teacher

By Jürgen Schreckegast

Encounters
No. 94 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Trumpeters and night wachtmen of old Zürich

By Walter Baumann

History
No. 70 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Stephen Burns, Talent on the lookout

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 87 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Maurice André

New directions

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 121 • 2003 Awaiting digitization

Otto Sauter - The determination to win

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 103 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Meeting Louie: Miami 1960

By Irving Bush

Report History
Herbert L. Clarke (1867-1945)
No. 21 • 1978 Digitized

Part 3

Herbert L. Clarke (1867-1945)

Early professional years

From struggle to breakthrough: Herbert L. Clarke’s rise reveals relentless practice, early setbacks, and the defining audition that launched one of history’s greatest cornet careers.

By David Hickman

History
Friedemann Immer Free
No. 50 • 1985 Digitized

Friedemann Immer

A new Trumpet

Baroque tradition and modern trumpet playing converge in Friedemann Immer’s unusual double career, shaped by Bach, natural trumpet and early music.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Historical instruments
Johann Ernst Altenburg (1736-1801)
No. 46 • 1984 Digitized

Johann Ernst Altenburg (1736-1801)

The last representative of the heroic art of the trumpeter and drummer

A trumpeter caught between a fading guild tradition and a changing musical world left a 1795 treatise that became an essential witness to a disappearing art.

By Arno Werner

History
The Haydn Trumpet Concerto
No. 35 • 1981 Digitized

Part 1

The Haydn Trumpet Concerto

As editions, instruments and traditions diverge, Haydn’s trumpet concerto becomes a lens on notation, style and the shifting meaning of performance.

By Alfred Willener

History Repertoire Interpretation Keyed trumpet Ornaments
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