Carl Baermann
Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Baermann ( born October 24, 1811 in Munich, † May 24, 1885 in Munich) was a German clarinet and Bassetthornvirtuose.
Life
Baermann was the son of Heinrich Joseph Baermann clarinet player and singer Helene Harlas (1785-1818); He had four siblings. Helene Harlas had previously been married to the Bavarian officials Joseph Geiger. Carl Baermann married Barbara Schmitz, they had eight children.
Baermann was musically trained by his father and was an apprentice in 1825 and 1832 laid the Munich Court Orchestra on, in which he played the basset horn and 1847 succeeded his father in the position of principal clarinet. He accompanied his father on four concert tours, and the two trumped as a father - and - son duo, among others, Carl's Duo concertant op 33, 1839, in Paris, where they had found shelter in the friendly Giacomo Meyerbeer.
His full Clarinettenschule he developed while teaching at the Royal School of Music, she appeared fünfbändig 1867 in Offenbach. With the instrument maker Georg Ottensteiner he patented in 1860 a clarinet model, which was the encouragement of the Brahms clarinet Mühlfeld. Upon retirement as a solo clarinetist, he was appointed to the Bavarian professor. Carl Baermann's work recorded 87 opus numbers.
His son Karl Baermann (1839-1913) was a student of Peter Cornelius and Franz Lachner and friend of Franz Liszt. He was employed at the Munich School of Music as a piano teacher, before he moved to Boston in 1881. His uncle, Carl Baermann (1782-1842) was a bassoonist in Potsdam.
Great duet for Dampfnudel or cream strudel, clarinet and basset horn
Heinrich and Carl Baermann made on a two -year concert tour on the way to St. Petersburg station in Berlin and agreed on December 30, 1832 a visit to the home of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Baermann and Mendelssohn had also met in 1827 in Berlin. Father and son Baermann should ensure, in the grand cuisine of Mendelssohn for a dish with steamed dumplings and strudel, after which it Mendelssohn lusted for a visit with Baermann in Munich. Mendelssohn, in turn, would meanwhile a long time promised Komponierauftrag for Heinrich Baermann meet. There was a concert piece for clarinet, basset horn and piano op.113, which could be rehearsed already on the evening of Mendelssohn on the piano. Due to the success repeated the three a few days after the cooking and Komponieraktion for a second concert piece, Concert Piece for Clarinet, Basset Horn and Orchestra No. 2, Op 114 Mendelssohn orchestrated his first composition, Carl Baermann wrote the orchestral version for the second.