Traditions
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The Leningrad School of Horn Playing
From St. Petersburg to the Soviet era, generations of horn players shaped a distinctive approach to sound, interpretation, and orchestral playing.
By Frøydis Ree Wekre
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Sergey Nikolaevich Yeryomin (1903-1975)
The Distinguished Soviet Trumpeter and Teacher
Between Soviet military bands, the Bolshoi and the Moscow Conservatory, Yeryomin helped shape a trumpet tradition in which virtuosity remained a means, not an end.
By Yuri Usov
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The tuba in France
How did the tuba emerge as an orchestral force? Fernand Lelong and Robert Coutet trace its path—from serpent to Sax—and its rapid rise.
By Fernand Lelong, Robert Coutet
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The saga of the cornet and six of its outstanding artists
The cornet reached extraordinary heights in the 19th century. Jack Hall traces the rise of its greatest virtuosi and a remarkable era of technical brilliance.
By Jack Hall
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10 Outstanding Trumpet Players in the Los Angeles Area
Behind the polished sound of Los Angeles studio trumpet playing stood remarkably similar training, disciplined routines, and a craft shaped by constant stylistic demands.
By Boyde Hood
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A brief glimpse at the USSR
What does a musical trip to the USSR reveal? Between discipline, powerful sound, and vivid exchanges, this account uncovers a different brass culture.
By Thomas Everett
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The founders of the French Trumpet School
Merri Franquin, Eugène Foveau and Raymond Sabarich
Franquin, Foveau and Sabarich appear through their Paris careers, teaching legacies, recordings and role in shaping modern French trumpet playing.
By Michel Laplace
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The tuba in Europe
Why does the tuba sound different across Europe? Robert Tucci explores national styles, instruments and orchestral traditions.
By Robert Tucci
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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.
By Daniel Bourgue
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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.
By Per Gade
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The Trumpet in the USA
The Piston C Trumpet in American Orchestras
American orchestral trumpeters reveal how Bach C trumpets, hall acoustics and extensive modifications shaped playing traditions in major ensembles.
By Thomas Stevens
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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.
By G. Orvid, S. Riaouzov
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The hunting horn
Long-held beliefs about the French hunting horn are challenged as forgotten playing practices and Baroque traditions reshape its early history and repertoire.
By Jacques Poncet
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100 Years of Kuhlo's Posaunenchor Book
A century-old brass choir book reveals how revivalist faith, Bach chorales, folk song, and practical notation reshaped church music.
By Wilhelm Ehmann