Georg Kopprasch

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Georg Kopprasch (* 1800 ; † 1850 ) was a German composer and horn player . He is best known for his one hundred and twenty études for horn (op. 5, op. 6).

Title page to his sixty Horn Etudes

Life

Kopprasch came from a musical family, he was the son of the composer Wilhelm Kopprasch (1750–1832), his father was a bassoonist in the orchestra of Prince Leopold III. from Anhalt-Dessau . Georg Kopprasch was a member of a Prussian regimental band and played second horn in the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin since 1822 . In 1832 Kopprasch returned to Dessau and played second horn in the court orchestra, where he probably spent the rest of his career.

Horn Etudes

With Berlin horn player in the early 1800s known, learned Kopprasch also the inventor of the valve horn Heinrich Stölzel know. Since horns could not play chromatically before Stölzel's invention of the valves, there were no chromatic etudes for the horn, and it is likely that Kopprasch composed his fundamental works to meet this need.

Kopprasch wrote two volumes of sixty each for horn, Op. 5 for high horn and Op, 6 for low horn, but only Op. 6 (low horn) gained popularity and is still being reissued today. Some early publications incorrectly read “C” instead of correct “G” for Georg Kopprasch. The studies were transcribed for other brass instruments such as tuba and trombone.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Merrill Culbertson: The Kopprasch Etudes for Horn . University of Texas at Austin, 1990, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Hans Pizka: Hornists Lexicon . The University of Michigan, 1986, ISBN 9783922409045 , p. 25.
  3. ↑ a b Ericson, John. “The Original Kopprasch Etudes” . © 1997, International Horn Society. Magazines. The Horn Call. February 1997.
personal data
SURNAME Kopprasch, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kopprasch, C. (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and horn player
DATE OF BIRTH 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH 1850
Place of death Dessau