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Herbert L. Clarke
Herbert L. Clarke

Herbert Lincoln Clarke (September 12, 1867–January 30, 1945) was a noted American cornet player, bandmaster, and composer. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The cornet is a Brass instrument very similar to the Trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape and mellower tone quality He is widely considered one of the greatest cornet soloists of all time.

Clarke's legacy includes some of the most popular compositions for the instrument, many definitive recordings, as well as a seminal school of playing which emphasized not only extreme technical aptitude, but also increased warmth and lyricism of tone. He also produced several method books that are still widely used by brass students to this day. In music a method is a kind of Textbook for a specified Musical instrument or a selected problem of playing a certain instrument

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Biography

Clarke was born in Woburn, Massachusetts in 1867. The son of a composer and organist, William Clarke, Herbert's family moved often to accommodate William's work engagements, from Massachusetts to Ohio, to Indiana, back to Massachusetts, and finally to Toronto in 1880. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year

Clarke's early musical instruction had been on the violin; by 1881, he was a second violinist in the Toronto Philharmonic Society. The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member Year 1881 ( MDCCCLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common However, according to his autobiography, one of the formative moments in his musical upbringing was attending a concert of The American Band of Providence, Rhode Island at the Horticultural Pavilion in Toronto in 1881, and hearing Bowen R. Church play a cornet solo. He subsequently began practicing his brother's cornet and took a chair as a cornetist in the Queen's Own Rifle band in 1882, in order to obtain his own government-issue cornet on which to practice.

Between 1884, when he graduated from high school, and 1887, Clarke drifted between playing both viola and second cornet (when required) in the pit orchestra of English's Opera House in Indianapolis, where his family had moved; working (unhappily) at the John Kay store in Toronto, while playing second chair cornetist with the Queen's Own; and playing at the Ontario Beach lake resort in the summer. Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year It was in 1887 that he joined the Citizen's Band of Toronto, under John Bayley, as the band's cornet soloist. He spent the next five years playing in and leading several bands around Toronto (the Taylor Safe Works Band, Heintzman Piano Company Band, Streetsville Ontario Band) and teaching at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (where he also played in the Toronto Conservatory String Quartet) and at the Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario. Trinity College School (TCS is a coeducational independent boarding/day school located in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. Port Hope is a Municipality in Ontario, Canada, about 109 km east of Toronto and about 159 km west of Kingston. In September of 1889 he married Elizabeth (Lizzie) Loudon, with whom he had two children: Vivian (Grace) in 1890 and James (Edward James Watkin) in 1892. Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year In the spring of 1892, he left Canada once again, after successfully auditioning for the Patrick Gilmore Band, based in Boston. Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore ( 25 December, 1829 &ndash 24 September, 1892) was an Irish -born Composer and bandmaster

In 1893, he joined John Philip Sousa's Band as a cornet soloist. Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common John Philip Sousa ( November 6, 1854 &ndash March 6, 1932) was an American Composer and conductor of the late After playing at the Chicago World's Fair in the same year, he left to play with various other bands, continuing to do so over the next five years. The World's Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago World's Fair) a World's Fair, was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary During this period, he held temporary positions as second trumpet with the New York Philharmonic, and as principal trumpet in the Metropolitan Opera, for which he temporarily switched to trumpet. The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active Symphony Orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842 The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880 is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. He also divorced Lizzie Loudon and married Lillian Bell Hause, with whom he had two more children, Ruby Bell and Herbert L. Clarke, Jr.

In 1898 he returned to Sousa's Band, with whom he toured extensively, and later became Sousa's assistant director, succeeding Arthur Pryor. After Pryor's departure from Sousa in 1903 to form his own concert band, Clarke conducted Sousa's Band in many recording sessions for the Victor Talking Machine Company. Furthermore, he spent time testing and developing instruments for Conn Instruments in Elkhart, Indiana, and making a considerable number of solo recordings for Victor, Edison, Columbia, and finally Brunswick. CG Conn Ltd, sometimes called Conn Instruments or commonly just Conn, was a United States manufacturer of Musical instruments, especially Elkhart (ˈɛlkɑrt is a city located in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. He resigned from Sousa's band in September of 1917 and returned to Canada to lead the Anglo-Canadian Leather Company Band in Huntsville, Ontario from 1918 to 1923. Huntsville (2006 population 18280 is a Town in the Muskoka Region of Ontario, Canada. During this time he performed very little, instead focusing his efforts not only on conducting, but also composition, and setting up his own school of cornet playing in Chicago. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States.

In 1923, he moved to Long Beach, California due to his wife's health and conducted the Long Beach Municipal Band until 1943. Long Beach is a city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific coast In April of 1934, he was elected President of the American Bandmasters Association. The American Bandmasters Association was formed in 1929 by Edwin Franko Goldman (1878 - 1956 to promote Concert band music From 1936 until his death in 1945, he developed a friendship with and gave private lessons to Claude Gordon. Claude Gordon, the "King of Brass" was a trumpet virtuoso band director educator lecturer and author His ashes were interred at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., near the gravesite of John Philip Sousa. The Congressional Cemetery is an historic Cemetery located at 1801 E Street SE in Washington D Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D His papers and memorabilia are held at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of

Notable works

Solo cornet compositions

Clarke composed over 50 solos for cornet, many of which have experienced several editions. Here are his most famous pieces, with the date of the earliest publication included.

Cornet and Trombone

Cornet methods

Prose

How I Became A Cornetist (1934): an autobiography

External links

Resources

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