Important Events in Clarinet History by Date Flashcards
1600’s
Female students at Venetian conservatories play the violin, flute, organ, oboe,
bassoon, cello, double basses, French horn, and harpsichord.
1700
Denner invents clarinet
1704
M.A. Ziani’s “Caio Pompilio” uses the chalameau.
1700’s
Women play piano, harp, and guitar for domestic entertainment.
1713
The clarinet is mentioned by Mattheson in his “Newly Organized Orchestra.”
1720
The chalameau is used in J. A. J. Faber’s Mass “Maria Assumpta.”
1721
By this date the instrument is already known in Italy as “Clarone”
1728
A concerto for chalameau is played in Paris.
1738
J.T. Eisel in the “Musicus Autodidactus” states that the speaker key gives Bb
instead of B, as before.
1740
1740: Handel’s Overture in D for two clarinets and horn.
1740’s
Molter’s clarinet concertos
1742
Mr. Charles, “the Hungarian,” plays a clarinet concerto in Dublin. (He was one of
the first traveling clarinet soloists.)
1749
Rameau’s “Zoroastre” uses clarinets
1750
Clarinets now begin to make real progress in the orchestra. The clarinet uses
barrels of different lengths. Approximate date of the Stamitz’s Clarinet Concerto
1751
Rameau’s “Acante and Cephis” uses clarinets. Haydn’s first used of the clarinet in
his “First Mass.”
1762
Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Emile on education – underlined the importance of
women to be entirely subordinate and dependent on their husbands.
1762
Thomas Arne’s Artaxeres uses clarinets. J.C. Bach’s Orione uses D and Bb
clarinets
1764
Gluck’s Orfeo uses clarinets. Mozart makes a copy of Abel’s Symphony Op. 8,
No. 6, in which clarinets replace the more usual oboes.
1767
Diderot and Alembert’s “Enclopedie” shows a two-piece chalameau with eight
finger holes, a detachable mouthpiece, and a single reed.
1769
Gluck’s Alceste uses clarinets.
1770
Five-key clarinet.
1772
Joseph Beer plays a clarinet concerto by Stamitz in Paris. The bass clarinet is
invented by Giles Lot in Paris
1776
Diderot and Alembert’s “Encyclopedie” describes a six-key clarinet
1776-78
Clarinets are used by Haydn in the Estherhazy orchestra.