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Description: | A soprano trombone made in the mid 20th century. The soprano trombone is the same shape as a tenor trombone but the same size as a trumpet. This instrument belonged to Harold Nash, who was the principle trombonist at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden for almost the entire second half of the 20th century. He acquired it at the request of Georg Solti who was conducting Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) with the company and demanded 'genuine' period instruments. In fact, Gluck wrote the part for a cornett, an early instrument with fingerholes and a trumpet mouthpiece. This misunderstanding dates back to Berlioz, whose orchestration treatise of 1843 claims the part was written for the soprano trombone. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum, London | Subjects: | work Leisure | Temporal: | circa 1965 | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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