History

The trombone and chamber music in France

By Raymond Lapie

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

Fats' [Navarro] Heirs

Prodigy - sound - agility: Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis

By Michel Laplace

Australian Brass Band Rules Britannia in 1924

By Brendan Collins

Wind Bands in Lithuania

By Algirdas Radzevicius

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

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.

By Ursula Menzel

Part 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.

By Per Gade

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.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Part 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.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Part 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.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Part 2

The modern concert hall

By Sabina Pade

Part 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.

By David Hickman

Staatskapelle of Dresden

Long Orchestral tradition

By Peter Damm

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.

By Albert Hiller

19th Century Brass Instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum

Vermillion (USA)

By Margaret Downie Banks

Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna

Special Austria

By Friedrich Anzenberger

History of brasses in Bulgaria

By Vassil Todorov

Part 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.

By Peter Damm

Part 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.

By Herbert Heyde

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.

By Taku Satoh

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

Part 2

The Tibetan Ritual Orchestra

By Daniel Scheidegger

Meeting Louie: Miami 1960

By Irving Bush