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The French Hunting horn, its history, its technique and its music
Centuries-old hunting signals still shape performance today, where technique, ritual and oral tradition preserved a musical language unlike any other brass practice.
Di Daniel Bourgue
Gratuito
Early Brass Instruments and Restoration
Restoring historic brass instruments means deciding what to preserve, what to undo and how modern methods can serve objects shaped by another musical age.
Di Ursula Menzel
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Parte 3
Anton Hansen (1877-1947)
Father of trombone playing in Scandinavia
From Sibelius to Paris, Anton Hansen’s later career links Scandinavian trombone playing with French repertoire, teaching, and orchestral reform.
Di Per Gade
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Bad Säckingen, Trumpet museum
A romantic legend, a remarkable private collection and Edward H. Tarr’s scholarship converged in Bad Säckingen to give the trumpet a museum of its own.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Gratuito
Parte 1
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) Biography
His First Twenty Years
First part of a detailed biography of Jean-Baptiste Arban, tracing his early years, studies at the Paris Conservatoire and the beginnings of his career.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Parte 2
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) Biography
The beginning of his career
Second part of Jean-Baptiste Arban’s biography, covering the early years of his career, his public performances, work with Adolphe Sax and the development of his famous method.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Parte 2
The modern concert hall
Di Sabina Pade
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Parte 2
Herbert L. Clarke (1867-1945)
Crucial Years
From illness and doubt to early triumph: Clarke’s “crucial years” reveal a fragile path—where talent, chance, and setbacks nearly drove a future legend away from music.
Di David Hickman
Staatskapelle of Dresden
Long Orchestral tradition
Di Peter Damm
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Jean-Baptiste Prin (1669-1742)
A tromba marine virtuoso
A forgotten string instrument leads to an unexpected treasury of Baroque trumpet music, challenging long-held assumptions about repertoire and performance.
Di Albert Hiller
19th Century Brass Instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum
Vermillion (USA)
Di Margaret Downie Banks
Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna
Special Austria
Di Friedrich Anzenberger
History of brasses in Bulgaria
Di Vassil Todorov
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Parte 3
Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos?
Deliberate divisions
Improvisation, articulation and ornament were once inseparable: Peter Damm recovers an 18th-century horn practice later narrowed by increasingly precise notation.
Di Peter Damm
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Parte 3
On the early history of valves and valve instruments in Germany (1814-1833)
Herbert Heyde traces early German valve instruments from Stoelzel’s horns to basses, makers, patents, and shifting brass-band sound.
Di Herbert Heyde
Gratuito
Salvation Army in Japan
Western-style brass music entered a once-isolated Japan through unexpected channels, with Salvation Army bands becoming part of a remarkable cultural transformation.
Di Taku Satoh
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Mikhail Innokentiévitch Tabakov (1877-1958)
Founder of the Soviet trumpet school
A towering figure of trumpet history: Tabakov shaped generations—including the legendary Timofei Dokchitzer—and laid the foundations of the Soviet trumpet school.
Di G. Orvid, S. Riaouzov
Parte 2
The Tibetan Ritual Orchestra
Di Daniel Scheidegger
Meeting Louie: Miami 1960
Di Irving Bush
Valentine Snow (1700-1770)
Di Brian Proksch
Classical, baroque horn or corno da tirarsi?
Di Javier Bonet Manrique
The Vienna horn and the Vienna sound
Special Austria
Di Armin Suppan
Parte 4
The influence of Berlioz
on contemporary 19th Century use of brass instruments
Di Ernest H. Gross
Parte 1
The C. G. Conn Company
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez