Hyacinthe Eléonore Klosé (11 October 1808 – 29 August 1880) was a French
clarinet player, professor at the
Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
, and composer.
Life and music
Klosé was born in
Corfu (
Greece
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). He was second clarinet at the
Théâtre Italien to Frédéric Berr beginning in 1836, then to
Iwan Müller
Ivan Müller, sometimes spelled Iwan Mueller (1786 in Reval, Estonia – 1854 in Bückeburg), was a clarinetist, composer and inventor who at the beginning of the 19th century was responsible for a major step forward in the development of th ...
following Berr's death in 1838, finally becoming solo clarinettist when Müller left in 1841.
In the Paris Conservatory, Klosé had many notable pupils including:
[Pamela Weston: ''Clarinet Virtuosi of the Past'' (London: Robert Hale, 1971); reprint: Emerson Edition, 2004.]
* K.I. Boutruy, who received First Prize in 1852.
* A. Grisez, who received First Prize in 1857.
*
Augusta Holmès
Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (16 December 1847 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of Irish descent (her father was from Youghal, Co. Cork). In 1871, Holmès became a French citizen and added the accent to her last name.Rollo Myers: "Augusta ...
.
*
Adolphe Marthe Leroy, who succeeded Klosé in his Paris professorship in 1868.
*
Louis A. Mayeur, to whom he also taught the saxophone in the early 1850s.
* I.G. Paulus, who received the "
Légion d'Honneur
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
" in the same year as Klosé.
*
Cyrille Rose, who received First Prize in 1847.
*
Frédéric Selmer, who was so accomplished that a special "Prize of Honour" was created for him in his final year, 1852.
*
Charles Paul Turban, who received Second Prize in 1864 and First Prize in 1865.
Klosé was also noted for his design improvements to the clarinet using the principles laid down by
Theobald Boehm
Theobald Böhm, photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl, ca. 1852.
Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (9 April 1794 – 25 November 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who perfected the modern Western concert flute and improved its fingering system (n ...
in his innovative work on the
flute keywork. From 1839 to 1843, he enlisted the help of
Louis-August Buffet of
Buffet-Crampon fame, an instrument-making technician, to construct what is known today as the
Boehm system clarinet.
He died in Paris.
References
* Paul, Jean-Marie: "Hyacinthe Klosé (1808–1880): His Works for Clarinet", in: ''The Clarinet'', vol. 33 (2006) no. 3, pp. 66–71.
External links
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1808 births
1880 deaths
19th-century classical composers
19th-century French composers
19th-century French male musicians
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
French classical clarinetists
French male classical composers
French Romantic composers
Musicians from Corfu
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