Klarinet Archive - Posting 000510.txt from 1999/02

From: chr <chr@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Here's a hard one - Andre Publisher
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:34:57 -0500

>> Subj: [kl] Here's a hard one - Andre Publisher
>
>> Does anyone have contact info for the music publisher "Andre"? (France)
>>
>> David Blumberg - My Tempo Accompaniments for Woodwind Players (100+ pieces,
>> Demos)
>> reedman@-----.com
>> http://www.sneezy.org/david_blumberg/
>
>David, the most famous publisher with the name "Andre" was not French. He
>was German. It was Johann Anton Andre and he was a contemporary of Mozart.
>(The name has the diacritic mark of the last letter, so it is pronounced
>AN-DRAY.)
>
>While they went out of business in the mid 1800s, it is still a famous
>publisher. They were located near Frankfurt.
>
>I know of no contemporary French publisher so named.

Actually the firm of Andre near Frankfurt is alive and well. Of interest
to clarinetists would be their complete publication in 6 volumes of the
Carl Baermann Clarinet Method. I believe they were Baermann's original
publisher. It was later revised by Prof. Oskar Schubert (though this was
a LONG time ago). Schubert only revised the fingerings, however, to more
closely be in line with his opinion of proper German fingerings, since
the Baermann system clarinet was superseded by further technical
development. Otherwise it is in fairly original text, especially with
regard to articulation, which was very important to Baermann. The
Bavarian State Library in Munich purchased a manuscript of the Carl
Baermann Method, which was originally considered to be Baermann's own
manuscript. Subsequent research, however, showed that it is probably a
manuscript copy of Baermann's original manuscript whose location is
presently unknown. A comparison of Andre's present edition of the
Baermann Method to this manuscript in Munich has shown that the text and
articulation of the two match. Unfortunately, the Fischer edition and
the Hite version have simplified the articulation likely based on a
fundamental misunderstanding of portato articulation in the late classic
and romantic middle-European music for wind instruments.

Andre publishes the Baermann Method in 6 volumes, two of which contain
the complete piano accompaniments to the etudes.

Street address:
Johann Andre, Musikverlag
Frankfurter Str. 28
63065 Offenbach

P.O. Box address:
Johann Andre, Musikverlag
Postfach 101331
63013 Offenbach

Phone: +49-69-813539
Fax: +49-69-815339

Regards,
Don Christensen

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