Derek Reaban

Ed,

(After I finished licking my chops), I found this really cool dissertation with a Historical Overview of the Russian School of Trumpet by Iskander Akhmadullin. He posted this reference in a similar topic at TH about The most influential trumpet teacher of all time.

I looked at it in enough detail to know that I will need to go back and try and patch together the “Trumpet Tree” to see how all of the connections from teachers to students work for the “Russian School”. This is an amazing document!

Since Vacchiano comes up so often in our lists, and he studied with Max Schlossberg, I see that his teachers are listed in this dissertation (on pages 8 and 9). The teachers at the Music Drama School (Uchilische) of the Moscow Philharmonic Society that Schlossberg listed as his teachers includes: August Marquardt and Franz Puttkammer. Both of these players were in the Imperial Bol’shoi Theater Orchestra in the 1880s and 1890s.

I saw Vladimir Drucker on richardwy’s list, and he is part of a very prominent tree. Drucker was Principal Trumpet in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the New York Symphony Society (one of the two groups to merge to become the New York Philharmonic). He was a student at the Moscow Conservatory and here’s that lineage:

The Moscow Conservatory:

• Friedrich (Fyodor Bogdanovich) Richter (1826-1901). Principal Trumpet of the Bol’shoi Theater Orchestra. The first trumpet teacher at the Moscow Conservatory.
  
• Karl Wilhelm (Vasili Georgievich) Brandt (1869-1923) better known as Willy Brandt. He was Principal Trumpet of the Bol’shoi Theater Orchestra in 1890 and then 1st Cornet in 1903. Succeeded Richter.
  
• Mikhail Tabakov (1877-1956) was Principal Trumpet in the Bol’shoi Theater Orchestra from 1903 until 1939. Succeeded Brandt.

Vladimir Drucker studied with both Brandt and Tabakov.

I especially liked this quote from the dissertation:

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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona

ecarroll

Derek,

You remain my absolute hero. This is the direction that I hoped this thread would end up going (see grandteachers, part 2)

Fascinated,
EC