Amand Vanderhagen

Amand Vanderhagen (also Amand Haegen or Amand van der Hagen ; * 1753 in Antwerp , † July 1822 in Paris ) was a Flemish clarinetist , basset horn player , conductor , composer and music teacher .

Life

Vanderhagen began his musical career at the age of 10 as a chorister at the Cathedral of Our Lady in his hometown. He then received lessons from his uncle A. Vanderhagen, who was an oboist in the music corps of Prince Karl Alexander of Lorraine in Brussels , and composition lessons from Pieter van Maldere . In 1785 he settled in Paris, where he became principal clarinetist in the Royal Guard's band and had already composed several military marches. In 1788 he became the conductor of this music corps. After the French Revolution in 1789, Bernard Sarrette accepted him as one of 45 musicians in the music corps of the Paris National Guard and was also a lecturer at the military music academy in Paris. After stints in the chapel of the Guards of the Directory in 1798 and the Guards of the Consuls , he became sub-bandmaster of the grenadiers of the Imperial Guard . After the Prussian campaign in 1806/07, Napoleon awarded him the Legion of Honor. At the end of the first Empire in 1815 he joined the orchestra of the National Theater (in the Théatre Feydeau) as a clarinetist , where he remained until his death.

Musical creation

As a composer, Vanderhagen left behind numerous arrangements of opera arias, suites, marches, dances and potpourris for wind orchestra, two flute concerts, two clarinet concerts, duets for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, etc.

Vanderhagen is better known for his educational work, namely teaching works for flute, oboe and clarinet as well as individual treatises. With the clarinet he laid the foundations of modern playing technique, even if the clarinet with 5 keys on which he was based was soon replaced by the instrument with 6 keys.

Works

Works for wind orchestra

• Symphony Concertante
• La Naissance du Roi de Rôme
• Grande Symphonie Militaire
• Musique pour harmonie, Op. 14th
• Musique pour harmonie, Op. 17th
• Musique pour harmonie, Op. 18th
• Musique pour harmonie, Op. 20th
• Musique pour harmonie, Op. 21st

Chamber music

• 6 Duos concertants for two clarinets (1788)
• Étude de Concert pour flûte seule
• approx. 40 fanfares for four trumpets and timpani

Educational works

• Method of nouvelle et raisonnée pour la clarinette (1785)
• Méthode nouvelle et raisonnée pour le hautbois, divisée en deux parties (around 1792)
• Méthode claire et facile pour apprendre à jouer en très peu de temps de la flûte
• Nouvelle méthode de clarinette (1796)
• Nouvelle méthode de flûte, divisée en deux parties (around 1798)
• Nouvelle méthode de clarinette - divisée en deux parties (1799–1800)

literature

• Francis Pieters : Harmoniemuziek vóór de ingrijpende bessormingen van Sax (1) , in: FedekamNieuws - Tweemaandelijks orgaan van Fedekam-Vlaanderen, 26th year / no. 6 (December 1981), pp. 468-471
• François-Joseph Fétis , Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique , Vol. 8, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1867, pp. 302–303
• François-Joseph Fétis and Arthur Pougin , Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique: Supplément et complément , Vol. 2, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1880, p. 601
• LE Jooris: Memorial usuel: des musiciens et dilettanti , Brussels: Imprimerie A. et C. Denis Frères, 1911
• Jozef Robijns, Miep Zijlstra: Algemene muziekencyclopedie , Haarlem: De Haan, (1979) -1984, ISBN 978-90-228-4930-9
• Thomas Grass, Dietrich Demus: Das Bassethorn - His development and his music , Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt, 2002, ISBN 3 8311 4411 7
• Maurice W. Riley: A Tentative Bibliography of Early Wind Instrument Tutors , in: Journal of Research in Music Education, 6th Jg./Nr. 1 (spring 1958), pp. 3-24
• Robert A. Titus: The Early Clarinet Concertos , in: Journal of Research in Music Education, 13th Jg./Nr. 3 (autumn 1965), pp. 169-176
• Pamela Weston: More clarinet virtuosi of the past , London: Pamela Weston, 1977, 392 p., ISBN 978-0-950-62591-1
• Norbert Dufourcq, Yolande de Brossard: Musiciens de Paris 1535-1792. Actes d'état civil d'après le fichier Laborde de la Bibliothèque Nationale , Avec le concours du CNRS, Paris: A. and J. Picard, 1965
• Richard J. Wolfe, Carleton Sprague Smith: Secular music in America 1801-1825 , New York: New York Public Library, 1964
• Robert Eitner: Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars of the Christian calendar up to the middle of the nineteenth century , Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Publishing company, 1959
• Leonardo De Lorenzo : My complete story of the flute , New York: Citadel Press, Inc., 1951
• Carlo Schmidl: Dizionario universale dei musicisti , Milan: Sonzogno, 1937, 2V p.
• Joan Michelle Blazich: Amand Vanderhagen and the Concept of the Clarinet Method Book . International Clarinet Association, 2008

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Amand Vanderhagen in the International Music Score Library Project
• Music scores by Amand Vanderhagen on Gallica