Just when you thought you had heard about everything that Leonardo DaVinci had thought about – you now will hear he thought about musical instruments, and among them, circa 1500, a keyed trumpet.

Anthony Tommasini’s recent article “The Greatest” has been hotly debated by classical music fans these past weeks. Not surprisingly, the name Louis Spohr appeared nowhere on the Tommasini’s list. More ...

THE keyed trumpet is an instrument whose time in the limelight was fleeting. Yet it had a revolutionary impact in the late 18th century. However, the development of the modern valved trumpet in the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. AS MUSICAL tastes were changing and baroque trumpets were falling out of favour with composers around the late 18th century, a ''miracle ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE keyed trumpet is one of those transitionary pieces of technology, like Betamax and blimps, bridging a gap from the baroque trumpet ...

Anton Weidinger’s experimental instrument never caught on so the concerto composed for it was forgotten until the 1930s Joseph Haydn wrote his trumpet concerto for his friend Anton Weidinger The other ...

The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra is organising a concert named Instruments of Innovation, yet it will be showcasing two instruments with ancient histories: the trumpet and the harpsichord. John ...

Everyone knows what a trumpet sounds like - except that they don't. During Saturday's engrossing concert by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Italian trumpeter Gabriele Cassone introduced most ...

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