Author: sfalexi
Date: 2023-10-07 14:48
I think part of the old masters (specifically of the generation you mentioned), is that it was the first opportunity to record and mass produce/distribute the classics. Prior to that, this music was still being played everywhere, but the ability to play it at will was not available. The ability for those EARLIER (pre-harold wright, pre-cahuzac and pre-marcellus) to have an influence in a wide scale was not there.
And then it happened. With the rises in technology was an ability to hear the CURRENT top clarinetists (Harold Wright, etc.) to be recorded, and heard. And analyzed. And, most importantly, have a wide-spread influence on young clarinetists world-wide. An "american" school of playing was born and recognized. A "european" school. People could hear and emulate, and know how the TOP players played phrases.
I think that's the big deal with those masters. They weren't necessarily better, or worse than, the people before or after. But they were the first to have such a large and widepsread influence.
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