Miss Jacobson's Music: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015

QUOTE:
"Talent is only the starting point."
AUTHOR: Irving Berlin

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Talent will only be of use if you
combine it with hard work and effort."

COMPOSER

HAYDN

CONCERTO FOR
TRUMPET and ORCHESTRA (1796)
in E FLAT MAJOR HOB. VIIe:1
Complete
Martin Berinbaum, Trumpet
Johannes Somary, Conductor
English Chamber Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QY1bb75ykc#t=17

I. Allegro (sonata form)

II. Andante (sonata form)

III. Allegro (rondo form)

This is the last concerto of Haydn's career written

in 1796, when he was in his mid-60's. He was

stimulated to compose it by the

invention of a new keyed trumpet

Keyed Trumpet

by Anton Weidinger,

a trumpeter in the Viennese

Imperial Court Orchestra who had spent his

career perfecting an "organisirte Trompete"

(organized trumpet) designed to fill in the

gaps between the notes of the natural series

[the only notes the natural trumpet

Natural Eb Trumpet (No Valves)

(the instrument used at the time) could play];

five or six holes drilled in the instrument and covered by

padded keys provided the missing chromatic notes.

Weidinger's trumpet had more latitude in its lower range.

The keys on the instrument permitted the trumpeter to

produce more pitches, particularly chromatic tones,

not available on the earlier trumpet.

Haydn, experimenting with the keyed trumpet's new

capabilities, takes this concerto into levels of innovation

and virtuosity that had never been done before.

The draw back to this new trumpet was a loss of brilliant

tone. Eventually, about 1820, that was remedied when

the keyed trumpet gave way to the valve trumpet which

prevails in the modern symphony orchestra.

HEAR A KEYED TRUMPET PERFORM THE

2ND MOVEMENT OF THIS CONCERTO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8QF3LrqKrA

http://muswrite.blogspot.com/2014/06/haydn-trumpetconcerto-in-e-flat-major.html
http://cso.org/uploadedfiles/1_tickets_and_events/2009-2010/program_notes/programnotes_haydn_trumpetconcerto.pdf
http://www.virginiasymphony.org/file/1213ProgramNotesHaydnTrumpetConcerto.pdf
http://abel.hive.no/trumpet/haydn/

SOME FAMOUS TRUMPET PLAYERS