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Hughes became professor of ophicleide at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall and at the Guildhall School of Music. He died in poverty in 1898 in Reading, Berkshire, England. The ophicleide died with him. His widow received a small grant for his burial from the Royal Society of Musicians. His instrument is on display in the ...
One of the last great ophicleide players was the English musician Sam Hughes. There have been claims that the instrument was a direct ancestor of the saxophone: supposedly Adolphe Sax, while repairing an ophicleide, put a woodwind mouthpiece on the instrument and liked the sound, allegedly leading Sax to design and create a purpose-built ...
accomplished player of the euphonium, ophicleide and other brass instruments. He is credited with widening the bore of the euphonium to improve the tone. He was an expert player playing with many musical companies and wrote a tutor for the instrument. Joseph M. Raffayola Former euphonist with the Sousa Band from 1892 to 1903; teacher of Simone ...
Jean Prosper Guivier was born in Antakalnis, a district in Vilnius, Lithuania, the son of Etienne Simon Guivier (6 March 1780 – 1 October 1829), a Napoleonic soldier of the 106 e régiment d'Infanterie de ligne (106th Line Infantry Regiment) [1] and Hélène or Marie-Hélène Odino or Odinot (5 March 1786 – 30 July 1857).
[7] [8] Only part of this oratorio is known to have survived, along with several of Nicholds' hymn tunes, in a collection of manuscript music associated with the Larks of Dean. [ 9 ] Around 1850 Nicholds moved to the Ebbw Vale area of Monmouthshire where he remained for five years.
Jean Hilaire Asté (1775–1840), also known as Halary or Halari, was a French professor of music and instrument-maker. [1] Among the other instruments he patented, he is best known for inventing the ophicleide of which, it has been claimed, only five originals remain. [citation needed]
Adam Neely was born in 1988. [an 2] His mother, Cathryn Frazier-Neely, [an 3] worked as a singer and instructor of avant-garde classical music.Neely began playing bass guitar when he joined a band in high school and gained more interest in the instrument after attending a jazz concert by Dave Brubeck and bassist Christian McBride.
The Crystal Palace Company employed him to lead Phasey's Band, a popular music group, from 1879 until 1882, at which point they returned to financing strictly military bands. He served as the bandmaster of the Earle of Chester's Yeomanty Cavalry band from 1873 to 1888.