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Johann Christoph Denner (13 August 1655 – 26 April 1707) [1] was a German woodwind instrument maker of the Baroque era, to whom the invention of the clarinet is attributed. Denner was born in Leipzig to a family of horn-tuners.
Around this time, well-known Nuremberg instrument maker Johann Christoph (J.C.) Denner made improvements to the chalumeau, eventually developing it into the Baroque clarinet. The chalumeau is distinguished by two keys (thought to be added by Denner), which cover tone holes drilled diametrically to each other.
The clarinet family is a woodwind instrument family of various sizes and types of clarinets, including the common soprano clarinet in B♭ and A, bass clarinet, and sopranino E♭ clarinet. Clarinets that aren't the standard B♭ or A clarinets are sometimes known as harmony clarinets.
Sonata for 8 H 548 (date unknown) Johann Sebastian Bach. Sonatas for solo violin (BWV 1001, 1003 and 1005) ... Sonata for Clarinet (or Viola) and Piano, Op. 28 (1945)
G: E♭, D: C, B♭, A, G: B♭, A: F: E♭ B♭ Stephen Fox E♭, D: C, B♭, A, G: C, B♭, A, G (also joints and joint conversions in C, B♭, A) F B♭, A (projected) Hanson Clarinet Company B♭, A Howarth of London B♭, A: A (joints & barrels only) Jupiter Band Instruments B♭ B♭ Leblanc (a division of The Selmer Company)
Charles Swinnerton Heap: Clarinet Sonata (1879) [2] Theodore Gouvy: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 76 (1882) Ebenezer Prout: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 26 (1882) [3] Felix Draeseke: Clarinet Sonata (1887), which also can be played by a violin; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Sonata (c1893) [4] Josef Rheinberger:Clarinet Sonata, Op. 105a (1893) Johannes Brahms:
April 20 – Johann Christoph Denner, inventor of the clarinet (born 1655) May 9 – Dieterich Buxtehude, composer (born 1637) June – Gaspard Le Roux, French harpsichordist (born c.1660) August 20 – Nicolas Gigault, organist and composer (born 1627) September 5 – Daniel Speer, composer (born 1636) [4]
The modern clarinet did not exist before about 1700. There are, however, a number of concertos written for its antecedent, the chalumeau.. The discovery of six clarinet concertos by Johann Melchior Molter (1696–1765) — the first of which may date from 1743 [5] — and three concerti grossi for clarinet and oboe written by Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) as far back as 1711 [6] have led music ...