Jean-Baptiste Arban
Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban (born February 28, 1825 in Lyon , † April 8, 1889 in Paris ) was a French composer and cornetist .
Life
Even as a young boy, Jean-Baptiste Arban was always interested in music, especially in the military bands. After attending a course on music theory, he chose the cornet (French: cornet à pistons) as his study instrument. He studied at the Conservatory of Paris from 1841 to 1845.
In 1857 he was initially chosen to work as a Saxhorn instructor at the École Militaire in Paris , the only military music school in France at the time. The instrument that made him famous, namely the cornet à pistons , was developed by Adolphe Sax in 1842 . In 1864, when he published his now world-famous school La grande méthode complète de cornet à pistons et de saxhorn par Arban for the first time, he had already risen to professor at the École Militaire . In 1869 he became professor of cornet à pistons at the Paris Conservatory.
In addition to the school already mentioned, as a composer he left behind some showpieces for trumpet or cornet , all of which demand great virtuosity from the performers.
Works
Instrumental works (for cornet à pistons )
- Caprice et Variations
- Cavatine et Variations
- Étude caractéristique n ° 1
- fantasy
- Fantaisie Brillante on themes from Giuseppe Verdi's "Don Carlos"
- Fantaisie et Variations on "Actéon"
- Fantaisie et Variations sur un Thème Allemand
- Theme et variations on "Le Carnaval de Venise"
- Fantaisie et Variations sur une Cavatine de Vincenzo Bellini
- Variations on La Norma de Vincenzo Bellini
- Variations on a Tyrolienne
- Variations sur le Petit Suisse
- Variations on a Thème favori de Carl Maria von Weber
- Variations on "Vois-tu la neige qui brille?"
- Variations on Themes from Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata"
- "Complete school for trumpet" - a teaching tool used in music schools around the world
Web links
- Works by and about Jean-Baptiste Arban in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Jean-Baptiste Arban in the International Music Score Library Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arban, Jean-Baptiste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arban, Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1889 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |