Heinrich & Carl Baermann: Music for Clarinet and Piano

Zingales, Dario;
Podgoreanu, Florian

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Heinrich and his son Carl Baermann count among the most accomplished clarinettists of the Romantic age. Many composers wrote for Heinrich, most notably Carl Maria von Weber, who composed his two concertos and chamber works with Heinrich in mind, impressed as he was by his ‘homogeneity of tone from top to bottom’. Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer were among others who wrote for this ‘Rubini of the clarinet’, as he was known at the time. His son Carl was less talented as a soloist, though he accompanied his father on concert-tours playing the basset horn, and he turned both to teaching and to instrument-making: in 1860 he produced an 18-keyed Müller-type clarinet, which found favour with many players, including Richard Mühlfeld, for whom Brahms wrote several celebrated late works such as two sonatas and the Clarinet Quintet.

Works:

• Baermann, C: Die kleine Bettlerin, Op. 14
• Baermann, C: Fantaisie brillante, Op. 7
• Baermann, H: Air varié
• Baermann, H: Introduktion und Polonaise, Op. 25
• Baermann, H: Notturno in F minor

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Muzyka klasyczna

Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

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