History

Valentine Snow (1700-1770)

By Brian Proksch

Classical, baroque horn or corno da tirarsi?

By Javier Bonet Manrique

The Vienna horn and the Vienna sound

Special Austria

By Armin Suppan

Part 4

The influence of Berlioz

on contemporary 19th Century use of brass instruments

By Ernest H. Gross

Part 1

The C. G. Conn Company

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

300 Years of the Horn in Bohemia

An unsigned portrait from the Dresden court links the rise of Bohemian horn playing to the ceremonial world of Baroque hunting culture.

By Kurt Janetzky

Part 1

Thomas Gschladt

An Historical Perspective of an 18th Century Trombonist

By J. Richard Raum

Part 1

Anton Hansen (1877-1947)

Father of trombone playing in Scandinavia

From Nørrebro cafés to the Royal Orchestra, Anton Hansen’s early years reveal the shift from valve to slide trombone in Scandinavian orchestras.

By Per Gade

Part 2

The trombone in Jazz and Popular Music

The classical Armstrong period (1927-1945)

Jazz trombone changed rapidly between 1927 and 1945, as Armstrong’s influence, big-band playing and new techniques transformed both its language and sound.

By Michel Laplace

Part 3

The arab Trumpet III (end) - The Art of Improvisation

The Art of Improvisation

By Nassim Maalouf

Part 3

The Alto trombone

In the 18th Century Sacred Chamber Music from the Abbeys of Göttweig and Melk, Austria

By J. Richard Raum

Restoration of a beautiful bugle

By Herbert Heyde

Pierre Vilhardin de Belleau, trumpeter to Louis XV

By Henry Parramon

The trombone of Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

By Jeremy Dibb, Simon Hogg

Part 3

The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music

The pluralism of the so-called “modern” forms (1945 to the present)

Bebop, Miles Davis and the rise of the flugelhorn mark a postwar jazz landscape in which trumpet playing splintered into competing sounds and ideals.

By Michel Laplace

The Hunting horn of Jacques Du Fouilloux (XVIth cent.)

By Werner Flachs, Rainer Egger

Discovery of the 'Turmsonaten' written in 1803

By Michael Kircheis

Jabbo Smith

The Unrecognised Jazz Trumpeter

Overshadowed by Armstrong and later by Eldridge, Jabbo Smith emerges as a crucial trumpet innovator whose speed, range and phrasing anticipated modern jazz.

By Michel Laplace

Henri Selmer Paris

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Part 1

The ancestry of modern concert halls

By Sabina Pade

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

Brass instruments in the Museo de la Musica in Barcelona

By Beryl Kenyon De Pascual

The early 19th-century invention-posthorn

By Albert Hiller

Part 1

A brief survey of the historical evolution of our instruments

By Jean-Pierre Mathez