Buhl, David 1781-1860
Six Fanfares for Four Trumpets (1799)
Six Quick Marches for 4 Trumpets (1806)
Instructeur de L‘École Nationale des Trompettes à Versailles, Band 1 (Tarr/Madeuf)
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The Pieces of This Volume 1
The fi rst six Fanfares à 4 trompettes from 1799 were probably written for trumpets in F, for this was the normal pitch during the Revolutionary period. For example, the cavalry trumpet made in 1804 by Courtois Frères, rue du Caire, no. E.1236 of the Conservatory collection (no. 1150 in Chouquet’s catalogue), is in this pitch. Kastner has this to say: „In the infantry bands of the Empire the old pitches of F and C were still in use by the brass and the clarinets. The pitches of E-fl at and B-fl at were only adopted in 1814, and even later by certain regiments“ (footnote I, p. 170). Nevertheless, the cavalry bands seem to have prefi gured this change already in the early years of the Empire, for the pieces that David Buhl wrote in 1804 for the Consular Guard (and destined for inclusion in our Volume 5) are for natural trumpets and horns in E-fl at, if one takes the key signature of E-fl at major in the trombone part as a point of departure. It is for this reason that we believe that the six Pas Redoublés of 1806 in the second half of the present Volume 1 were also intended for performance in E-flat.
