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I am staring at the title page of my Kopprasch, "60 Selected Studies", and I wonder from what reservoir these 60 studies were selected. How many studies did he compose, and where are the rest of them, the ones that were not selected?

On the other hand, I see on my Breitkopf & Hartel's edition of his op.5, "Etudien fu:r Alt-Horn", that neither this nor the op.6 "Etudien fu:r Bass Horn" say that the studies were selected.

So, are there more Kopprasch studies, unpublished?

David Goldberg

Lets face it, if you can play all 60 studies with transpositions up to speed, what difference does it make.

James P. Freund

So, are there more Kopprasch studies, unpublished?

As I've heard it, Kopprasch wrote 100 excercizes for high horn and 100 excercizes for low horn. The 60 selected studies that we all know and love today come mostly from his high horn book, with a smattering of some from the low horn book.

Where are they? No clue.

Tom

Find out more than most people would want to know about Georg Kopprasch in my home page at

http://www2.potsdam.edu/CRANE/ericsojq/original_kopprasch.htm

The "60 Selected Studies" are the complete Op. 6 of Kopprasch, etudes for Cor Basse. The Op. 5 etudes are for Cor Alto.

Dr. John Q. Ericson

Gang,

The catalog entry and an order form for the "90 Etudes - Complete Kopprasch, A Practical Study for Transposition" can be found online at:

http://www.horndoggie.com/windmusic/

I personally prefer this edition above all others. This book includes a wider array of transpositions, and includes other Kopprasch etudes that are not in the well-known "60 etude" versions. In many of the etudes in this edition, there are different notes and even entire phrases that differ from the more known editions.

Also, Dr. Ericson has written an informative article which can be read online at:

http://www2.potsdam.edu/CRANE/ericsojq/original_kopprasch.htm

Finally, some of the "missing" etudes do appear within the two-volume "red" and "blue" books published by Southern Music, and edited by Max Pottag and a Mr. Andraud. I am at a remote location and away from my library, but the title is something like "350 Selected Etudes."

A quick check in the Robert King Brass Players Guide could easily confirm this title...

-Bruce.

In answer to David Goldberg's post concerning the Kopprasch etudes:

There are inded two volumes. Op. 5 includes 60 studies for High Horn. The Op. 6 etudes, another 60 studies, are the ones with which we are most familiar. These are for the Low Horn.

Opus 5 has many etudes similar in scope to the Opus 6, but exploring different regions of the playing range. (many going to upper c, d, and an occasional e-Ouch!!) The high horn set of studies are available. I seem to recall Milan Yancich published these at one time (Wind Music). I believe that Hans Pizka may be offering this in his catalogue too. (He was very gracious in letting me peruse a copy for my dissertation research).

I find their value is more suitable for academic study. The low horn studies are more applicable to modern technique. If you wish to study range, then practice high horn transposition (A, C alto, B alto-this will get you ready to play those early chamber orchestra works of the Baroque and Roccoco periods).

Sincerely,

Eldon Matlick

There are inded two volumes. Op. 5 includes 60 studies for High Horn. The Op. 6 etudes, another 60 studies, are the ones with which we are most familiar. These are for the Low Horn.

The high horn set of studies are available. I seem to recall Milan Yancich published these at one time (Wind Music). I believe that Hans Pizka may be offering this in his catalogue too.

Actually, Hans Pizka does not list these etudes in his catalog. However, we are currently preparing a new, reengraved edition of the op. 5 etudes, due out before the end of the year, and will keep you posted.

David B. Thompson (President, Thompson Edition, Inc.)

This brings up an interesting question that I have. I recently received my music for an upcoming Army band audition in DC and I noticed on of the etudes requested, the list reads Koprasche #41.

I know Koprasche and it isn't 41. I think its the Maxime Alphonse #41 (in one of the books??)

Well, unfortunately from your description I can't tell you which etude it is that they sent you. I can tell you what it is not. I agree with you that it is not "Kopprasch no. 41." Neither the "no. 41" from the low horn etudes, op. 6, nor the "no. 41" from the high horn etudes, op. 5, is in 3/8 meter.

Neither is it Maxime-Alphonse no. 41. The only only one of the six Maxime-Alphonse volumes which reaches no. 41 is the first, all of the others have contain at most 40 etudes. Book 1, No. 41 of Maxime-Alphonse isn't in 3/8 either.

Sorry I can't be of more assistance.

David B. Thompson

Greetings listers,

KOPPRASCH'S book I no.22, Adagio espressivo M12, shows: tr=Orig.

What is meant by :Orig.?
A Trill is normally requested from one (1) note, not two as in this case in M12.!!

Bedtime readings in Arban and Chailly (BKs I and II) have not helped. Any ideas on what the man wants?

Robert

Friends,

I have heard Tuba players working on the Kopprasch studies too. Were they written for horn?

LLB

You can get them for Tbone too.

James P. Freund

When I have to play Wagner Tuba, I prepare by playing Kopprasch on tuba. It really helps!

Wes

This volume, published by Milan Yancich is nothing else as Josef Schantl´s 3rd book of his "Great Theoretical & Practical Method". The selection was made by Josef Schantl in Vienna before the turn of the century. I can prove that, as I have the original setting (before going to CEFES Heilbronn publisher) here in my personal library.

The high transpositions are not set to prepare for the baroque & roccoco literature, as Eldon Matlick suggested, (who played this particular literature at the turn of the century? NOBODY !), but it was a good tool, to practise with HANDICAP, to prepare oneself for the worst. Remember, this was done on single-F-Horns, the common instrument of that period.

Greetings from Munich

Prof.Hans Pizka

Prof.-

Milan Yancich has published the 1st and (now as you have pointed out) the 3rd volume of the Schantl method.

Have you published, or know of a source for the 2nd volume?

Kind regards,

-Bruce.

To clarify the things for those teachers or students or colleagues, who discuss things they have never seen in the original:

Josef Schantl´s Hornschule (Grand theoretical and practical School for the Horn (natural Horn or Hunting Horn) and for the Valve-Horn edited by Heinrich Schantl, Imperial Professor of the Vienna Music- and Opera-School, German & English Edition by John Bernhoff) in 4 vols.:

Vol.1: Naturhornschule (natural horn method)
Vol.2a/b: Ventilhornschule (Grand theoretical & practical School for the Horn as re-published by WINDMUSIC Inc., Milan Yancich, as a 100% reproduction of the original first print) This great method covers all basic music theory, all major & minor keys, scales, interval studies, arpeggios, all possible expression markings, variations, from low to extreme high horn.
Vol.3: 120 kleine melodioese Tonstuecke ohne Begleitung, zur Erlernung des Vortrages und Vorschule des Solo-Blasens (120 short melodic pieces without accompaniment to train musical interpretation & introductory methode for solo playing) - available by Pizka Edition
Vol.4: 90 Etudes specially selected for advanced pupils, by Kopprasch and Gallay and other Authorities for transposition (low & high), together with a school preparatory to transposing, with annexed tables. - This book has been published by WINDMUSIC Inc. as a 100% reproduction of the first print.

So the original inscriptions upon the first prints in my collection. The original sketches to this great method are also part of my collection.

If one has studied all these four books, plus some Maxime-Alphonse books, some Belloli Etudes, Carlo Bergonzi Etudes, some Ernst Paul advanced transposition studies (Doblinger Wien), well, then one should be ready for the sonatas & concertos. But it is a mistake to treat an immature student with Strauss No.1 or even worse Strauss No.2 for a year or longer.

Greetings from Munich

Prof.Hans Pizka

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