Édouard Nanny @ 150
2022 is the 150th birthday of the French bassist-composer Édouard Nanny (1872 – 1942). He was the leading French bassist of his generation, taught at […]
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Domenico Dragonetti
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Dragonetti & Novello
Works for soprano and double bass date back to the early 1790s and the music of Johannes Matthias Sperger (1750 – 1812), notably his two
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A.C. White and the Haunting of Gwyneth Paltrow
When A.C. White died in London in 1902, he was one of the most eminent double bassists of the time. He left an estate valued
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Bert Turetzky — An American Original
Early in his career, while teaching at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, Turetzky’s life took a change of direction. A friend, a composer,
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Dragonetti’s Twelve Waltzes
These extraordinary specimens of “the Waltz style” as applied to the capabilities of such an instrument as the Double Bass were some of the last
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Finding Lorenziti
Who was Lorenziti, and what do we know about him? Is this the correct spelling of his name, or should it be Lorenzitti? The answer
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The Double Bass, Carried on the Shoulders of Henze
“It was to be pure and absolute music, sound form in movement, so once again the dreadful Gorgon’s head of formalism loomed on the horizon.”
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