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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.
Denner also reduced the size of the hole and inserted a small tube to facilitate overblowing, greatly increasing the range of the instrument to nearly three octaves. The instrument was also lengthened to increase accuracy of tuning, the recorder -like foot joint of the chalumeau was replaced by a bell similar to the oboe , and a key on the ...
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.
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:
The term soprano also applies to the clarinets in A and C, and even the low G clarinet—rare in Western music but popular in the folk music of Turkey—which sounds a whole tone lower than the A. Some writers reserve a separate category of sopranino clarinets for the E ♭ and D clarinets, [ 1 ] while some regarded them as soprano clarinets.
The B ♭ soprano clarinet is the most common type, and is the instrument usually indicated by the word "clarinet". German instrument maker Johann Christoph Denner is generally credited with inventing the clarinet sometime around 1700 by adding a register key to the chalumeau, an earlier single-reed instrument. Over time, additional keywork and ...
Although the enharmonic key of A-flat major is preferred because A-flat major has only four flats as opposed to G-sharp major's eight sharps (including the F), G-sharp major appears as a secondary key area in several works in sharp keys, most notably in the Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.
Sonata in G for Keyboard and Violin, K. 9 (1764) Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (1764) Sonata in B-flat for Keyboard, Violoncello and Violin (or Flute), K. 10 (1764)