Brass Bulletin 14, II / 1976
page 3–7
· 8 min. read
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) Biography
The Last Years of his Life
Part 6
Arban and the call for progress: inspired by Saint-Saëns, he makes a final push for a C cornet—an effort that would ultimately fail.
The informations we were able to collect on the famous French virtuoso of the cornet à pistons allowed us to reconstruct in broad line the maestro’s life and character. Owing to his famous «Grande Méthode complète pour cornet à pistons et de saxhorns» (1864), this artist has had — more than anyone else — immense influence on thousands of brass players during the last century.
Arban read in the French revue «Le Ménestrel» of November 21, 1886, the following article written by Camille Saint-Saëns:
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