Orchestra excerpts for 'Berliner' tuba

On 12th September 1835 Berlin-based musical administrator, composer, and conductor Wilhelm Wieprecht and inventor Johann Gottfried Moritz were granted a Prussian patent for their chromatische Baß-Tuba. Originally designed for the Prussian military bands, the Basstuba found favour with Hector Berlioz, who heard it in 1843 whilst on an extended conducting tour of the German States. His influence greatly contributed to its widespread use in central Europe by the mid-nineteenth century. Pitched in F with five valves, the Berliner-Pumpen valves were soon superseded by rotary valves. The instrument used in these recordings of music from Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner and Bedrich Smetena was built by Ahlberg & Ohlsson in Stockholm in ca. 1860. 0:00 Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser (1845) 1:17 Franz Liszt: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (ca. 1850) 2:50 Richard Wagner: Lohengrin (1850) 4:25 Bedrich Smetena: Richard III (1858 5:48 Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868) 7:30 Johannes Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem (1869) Recorded in Berlin in April 2020, with the kind permission of Jake Klein For more information on this project, visit https://www.jackadlermckean.eu/the-hi...