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Clarinet players from Stadler to Fröst

There are and were a lot of excellent and popular clarinet players and ensembles, and it is not simple to give you a list of the "best known" or "the best". You find a list of the ones that I found were/are important in their time.

Quite often the clarinet players influenced composers directly - this wasn't always just a professional relationship only, but often a friendship. It helped both: The musician needed new and popular pieces to play, and the composer benefited from finding out what a player could do with the instrument. Most composers then and today play the piano and maybe one other instrument, the more they know about the characteristics of the instruments, the better they can set music for them. You find a lot of such relationships between composer and player: Stamitz and Joseph Beer, Mozart and Stadler, Spohr and Hermstedt, Weber and Baermann, Brahms and Mühlfeld, as well as Benny Goodman who worked together with modern composers a lot.

Since the time I started to write this web page - late last century - media channels like Youtube have become very popular, and broadband access is affordable to most of you. This changes the way we can access and consume music and media. In result you can watch most of today's players in videoclips in famous concert halls right in your browser. It is technically possible to list links to these videos, but they may change frequently and some are simply illegal in some countries. You will easily find them by using the search option of youtube entering Stoltzman, Meyer or Neidich - and you will find hundreds of excellent concerto recording clips and videos, some in HD and HiFi.

The definite highlight is the series from Denmark Play with a Pro, where renowned instrumental teachers and professionals give masterclass-type lessons. This includes clarinets, too.

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Fünf deutsche Klarinettisten des frühen Jahrhunderts : Carl Andreas Göpfert, Heinrich Backofen, Heinrich Neumann, Heinrich Baermann und Simon Hermstedt : Biografien, Werkverzeichnisse, Dokumente

Title

1. Fünf deutsche Klarinettisten des frühen Jahrhunderts : Carl Andreas Göpfert, Heinrich Backofen, Heinrich Neumann, Heinrich Baermann und Simon Hermstedt : Biografien, Werkverzeichnisse, Dokumente / Johan van Kalker.

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1. München : Musikverlag Bernd Katzbichler,
2. ©

Author

1. Kalker, Johan van

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