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The clarinet is widely used as a solo instrument. The clarinet evolved later than other orchestral woodwind instruments, leaving solo repertoire from the Classical period onward, but few works from the Baroque era. Many clarinet concertos and clarinet sonatas have been written to showcase the instrument, for example those by Mozart and Weber. [95]
Michael Lowenstern (born August 23, 1968) is an American musician, composer and educator, specializing in bass clarinet.He is well known for his YouTube channel Earspasm [1] and for his many recordings featuring the bass clarinet as a solo instrument in classical, jazz, and electronica formats.
In March 2006, the newly developed basset horn was awarded the Bavarian State Prize, after S & S already received a design award in 2004. [12] Instead of the usual metal bow between the mouthpiece and the upper joint, the instrument is equipped with a normal barrel and a bent connecting piece between the barrel and the upper joint each made of wood.
A saxonette is a soprano clarinet in C, B ♭, or A that has both a curved barrel and an upturned bell, both usually made of metal. It has the approximate overall shape of a saxophone, but unlike that instrument it has a cylindrical bore and overblows by a twelfth. The instrument is also known as the 'Claribel' and 'Clariphon'. [1]
The Silva-Bet, which debuted in 1925, is generally acknowledged to have been the first successful metal clarinet. [1] [2] Shortly after the appearance of the Silva-Bet, other woodwind makers entered the metal clarinet market, including Selmer Paris in 1927 [3] with their Master Model as well as American companies Buescher with their True Tone model and H. N. White with the Silver King.
Schmidt named the instrument the "Reform Boehm clarinet". In the second half of the 1940s, master clarinet maker Fritz Wurlitzer, based in Erlbach, [a] Vogtland / Saxony, built a clarinet with Schmidt's instructions. [1] They had collaborated earlier in producing the Schmidt-Kolbe clarinet, a variant of the German clarinet. [2]
The invention of the alto clarinet has been attributed to Iwan Müller and to Heinrich Grenser, [2] and to both working together. [3] Müller was performing on an alto clarinet in F by 1809, one with sixteen keys at a time when soprano clarinets generally had no more than 10–12 keys; Müller's revolutionary thirteen-key soprano clarinet was developed soon after. [3]
Selmer first marketed the instrument in 1959: "Over the past 75 years, many new clarinet key Systems have been submitted to Selmer. Yet the Mazzeo system is the first we have ever placed in production. The reason: It is the first to offer realistically practical advantages for ever clarinetist.