Klarinet Archive - Posting 000511.txt from 1999/02

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Here's a hard one - Andre Publisher
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:53:33 -0500

I thank Don Christenson for this wonderful piece of news. I had no
idead that the firm of Johann Anton Andre was still alive and kicking.

And he also gave such a wonderfully thorough description of the
Baermann clarinet method, too!! Solid work.

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.92
> Subj: Re: [kl] Here's a hard one - Andre Publisher

> >> 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 the Baermann system clarinet was superseded by further technical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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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
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