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Re: Albert System as opposed to Oehler

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-07-18 22:32

Henry Lazarus would have been the one to hear, but, alas, he gave his farewell concert in 1892 and died in 1895. STan Stanford (avid collector of old clarinet recordings) begins his list with Sousa Band soloist August Stangler and William Tuson recordings from 1898 to 1903. I don't know what system clarinets they used. By the time of Lazarus's death, the Boehm instrument was clearly taking hold in France and America, and Lazarus's successors in England seem also to have veered off toward the Boehm. If sound recording technology had been developed and available from say 1850 to 1880, Albert system classical players would have been well represented.

Acceptance of new clarinet systems has ever been a dicey and unpredictable thing. Iwan Muller's 13 key instrument was considered too innovative at first, just as the Klose/Boehm system would be when first introduced. Cavallini resisted using anything newer than his 6-key boxwood; to him Muller's "omnitonic" instrument and the later Albert were laden with too much mechanism. He stuck with lightness and simplicity of design.

Post Edited (2020-07-19 01:36)

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