Author: Max Schlossberg

Publisher: Allegro Editions

Published: 2014-11-01

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781626540217

Improve your pitch, flexibility, and range with drills and technical exercises by world-renowned teacher Max Schlossberg. Regarded as the gold standard of trumpet instruction at schools, universities, and conservatories for nearly a century, this compendium can be adapted to a broad range of playing levels from novice to expert. Especially useful in developing the upper register from G2 to C5, "Daily Drills and Technical Studies for Trumpet" provides a solid core for daily warm-ups. Schlossberg, often celebrated as the founder of the American schools of trumpet playing, devoted much of his life to teaching students with the individualized, handwritten drills collected in this book. See your playing improve dramatically after practicing these drills for only 20 minutes a day Max Schlossberg left more than the manuscripts that comprise "Daily Drills and Technical Studies for Trumpet"; he left a battalion of pupils whose position in the forefront of American music offers the most concrete evidence of his ability to impart his mastery of the trumpet to ambitious students. He is remembered for his infinite patience with the unique idiosyncrasies of his students, rather than teaching rigid methodologies. Born in Libau, Russia in 1875, Schlossberg received training at an early age under men like Marquard, Putkammer, and Adolf Souer at the Imperial Conservatory at Moscow. He later studied under the famous professor Kozlic in Berlin and toured Europe as a soloist under Nikisch, Weingartner, and Richter. In 1910 he joined the New York Philharmonic Symphony, where he remained for the last 26 years of his life. Soon after his arrival in the United States, he became a faculty member of the Institute of Musical Art and later the Julliard Graduate School.