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He has made an effort to play new music for the clarinet, and has had several works composed for him. Composers include: Toru Takemitsu ("Waves" and a concerto for clarinet and orchestra), Steve Reich ("New York Counterpoint"), Lukas Foss , Roberto Carnevale , and Einar Englund (clarinet concertos).
Karl Leister (born 15 June 1937) is a classical clarinet player from Wilhelmshaven, Germany.At a very young age, he learned to play the clarinet from his father, also a clarinetist, and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin.
Bliss started playing clarinet at age 4, when he was given a Lyons C Clarinet, a clarinet designed to let children begin the clarinet four or more years younger than usual. Most students do not play wind instruments until age 11 or 12. [1] In 1997 Bliss began studying at The Purcell School for Young Musicians.
The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the ... Nearly all soprano and piccolo clarinets have keywork enabling them to play the E below middle C as their ...
The register key is a key on the clarinet [clarification needed] that is used to play in the second register; that is, it raises the pitch of most first-register notes by a twelfth (19 semitones) when pressed. It is positioned above the left thumb hole and is operated by the left thumb.
The contra-alto clarinet is higher-pitched than the contrabass and is pitched in the key of E ♭ rather than B ♭.The unhyphenated form "contra alto clarinet" is also sometimes used, as is "contralto clarinet", but the latter is confusing since the instrument's range is much lower than the contralto vocal range; the more correct term "contra-alto" is meant to convey, by analogy with ...
This article lists notable musicians who have played the clarinet This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Perhaps the main reason for preferring a saxonette to a straight clarinet is visual: the saxonette looks distinctive and unusual. The Saxonette achieved some popularity amongst the New Orleans style of clarinet players. Alphonse Picou was an adherent and can be seeing performing High Society on YouTube. [5]