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- March 2025 Obituaries - Our summary of those the classical music world has lost this month
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- Spotlight. Brimming with Good Humour - Geoff Pearce listens to piano music by Salieri
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VIDEO PODCAST: Discussion about Bernard Haitink (1929-2021), Salzburg, Roger Doyle's Finnegans Wake Project, the English Symphony Orchestra, the Chopin Competition Warsaw, Los Angeles Opera and other subjects.
The invention of the clarinet (c1690-1700) is attributed to Johann Christoph Denner of Nuremberg, who was baptised on 13 August 1655 in Leipzig. The clarinet is derived from the earlier Chalumeau family of instruments, and Denner's chief improvement was the addition of the speaker key, providing the instrument with a new upper range. He died in April 1707 and was buried on the 26th of the month.