Jean Baptiste Arban

28-2-1825 at Lyon
9-4-1889 at Parijs
French cornet à piston virtuoso, teacher at the conservatoire in Paris, refined some brass instruments and wrote a learningmethod for trumpet, cornet and saxhoorn.
The book is famous and still actual and is in the world of trumpetplayers known as 'The Arban'.

Arban stuff

cornet Photographs of Jean Baptiste Arban

Photographs of the 'Arban'

Photograph Cover Nonesuch 'Cornet Favorites'
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Fantaisie Brillante
Sergei Nakariakov
Carnival of Venice
Gerard Schwarz
Carnival of Venice
Harry James
  1. Fantaisie Brillante
    Sergei Nakariakov : trumpet (Antoine Courtois)
    Maria Meerovitch : piano
    Teldec
    This album by Sergei Nakariakov, recorded in the Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Dahlem, south-west Berlin, in August 2010.

  2. The carnival of Venice : variations on a thema for cornet and piano
    Gerard Schwarz: cornet (Vincent Bach 'Stradivarius')
    William Bolcom: piano
    Nonesuch lp H-71298 'Cornet Favorites'.
    Record bought in january 1977.

  3. The carnival of Venice : Harry James + his orchestra
    no data concerning personnel, when or where.
    Fontana (has been a subdivision of Philips) ep (extended play) 462 007 TE
    'Harry James Favourites'.
    Record bought in june 1958.


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