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The discoverer and activator Corno da caccia

Güttler mit Corno da caccia
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   At the beginning 18. Century was the Corno caccia one of the most popular sheet metal wind instruments there, because it was not like that "ruede of nature like a trumpet" and could with "largest Facilitaet" become tractiert: From the hunt signal instrument the horn had developed to the virtuosen instrument. Thus numerous concerts for Corno were composed there caccia, those because of their high Clarinenlage on waldhoernern, like them since that 19. Century to be built, only are conditionally playable. Something similar applies also to the horn portions in some Kantaten of J. S. Bach.
   Ludwig Guettler discovered valuable compositions of the baroque for Corno there in libraries caccia and considered, how he could bring it in the modern concert hall back to ringing out. For this it energized instrument farmer the Friedbert Syhre in Leipzig outgoing from the historical Corno there caccia for the construction of a valve Corno there caccia, which corresponds to the old horns in its sound characteristic. On this instrument Ludwig Guettler successfully animates the old virtuose Clarin Spielkunst on horns of new.

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