Albisiphon
The Albisiphon is a transverse flute named after its inventor Abelardo Albisi (1872–1938), the first flutist at La Scala in Milan , who made it for the first time in Milan in 1910 .
The Albisiphon is a bass flute in C with a B-foot and a cylindrical metal tube, the upper part of which ends after a short, trumpet-like turn with a crutch for the blowing hole. This is located in the axis of the tube; consequently the instrument is blown across, but held like a longitudinal flute. It sounds an octave lower than the ordinary flute .
use
The Albisiphon is featured in the following works, among others:
- Pietro Mascagni : Parisina (1913)
- Riccardo Zandonai : Francesca da Rimini
- Riccardo Zandonai: Melenis
- Friedrich Klose : The Sun Spirit, Mythical Oratorio (1917)
- Giovanni Giannetti : Adagio, for albisiphon and string quartet
literature
- Curt Sachs : Real Lexicon of Musical Instruments . Julius Bard, Berlin 1913
- Wilhelm Altenburg : The "Albisiphon", a new bass flute . In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, Volume 31, 1910/11, pp. 930-931
Web links
- Dayton C. Miller playing at Albisiphon: Library of Congress (illustration)
- Detailed description and illustrations
Individual evidence
- ↑ William Waterhouse: Albisi, Abelardo. In: Grove Music Online, 2001
- ↑ Christoph Schlüren: Foreword to the performance material of Friedrich Klose's oratorio Der Sonne Geist from Musikproduktion Höflich, accessed on June 26, 2017.