Klarinet Archive - Posting 000879.txt from 1998/06

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Berlioz
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 22:06:24 -0400

some mistake snuck in the previous message.AG

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 from
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.

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Avrahm Galper

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