Klarinet Archive - Posting 000878.txt from 1998/06

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Berlioz
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 21:59:07 -0400

avrahm galper wrote:
>
> Hector Berlioz's memoirs
>
> Reading some of Berlioz's writings, one can get a glimpse of what he
> thought the players of his days sounded like.
> In this part of his book he is travelling and conducting in Germany.
> Generally, he says that the clarinet players were excellent
> One time he mentions the trombones. He mention one Schrade"who is the
> most gifted player, a complete master of his instrument who makes light of the most formidable difficulties and produces a magnificent tone on the trombone-I should rather say tones, for by some process not yet explained he can play three or four notes at the same time. ( like the young horn player, Vivier, who the Musical press of Paris has been so taken up with lately.)
>
During a Fantasia which he performed at a public concert, this
> trombonist Schrade, paused at a pedal note and to the astonishment of all present sounded simultaneously the four notes of the chord of the dominant seventh in the key of Bb, pitched as follows:Eb,A,C,and F.
> It is for the acousticians to account for this new phenomenon of natural resource and for musicians to study and profit by it if the occasion arises.
>
> The young horn player mentioned before, Vivier, was an ingenious
> practical joker and an eccentric artist but artist of genuine talent
> and rare musical ability.
> There was a story of his staying in some hotel in Bonn, and the
> innkeeper who heard him playing horn one night in his room tried to
> charge him for the three extra guests staying in his room.
>
>
> Avrahm Galper
>
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