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Hyacinthe Elionore Klosé (Corfu, October 11, 1808 - August 29, 1880 Paris) was a French clarinet player and professor at the Conservatoire de Paris who improved the clarinet using some of the principles laid down by Theobald Boehm in his innovative work on the flute keywork. To that end, from 1839 to 1843, he enlisted the help of Louis-August Buffet of Buffet-Crampon fame, an instrument-making technician, to construct —what is known today as the— Boehm system clarinet[citation needed].
From 1836, he was second clarinet to Frédéric Berr and after the latter's death in 1838 to Iwan Müller in the Théâtre Italien, finally becoming solo clarinet when Müller left in 1841.
In the Paris Conservatory, Klosé had many notable pupils including[1]
- K.I. Boutruy gaining First price in 1852.
- A. Grisez gaining First Prize in 1857.
- Augusta Holmès
- Adolphe Marthe Leroy who succeeded Klosé in the Paris professorship in 1868
- Louis A. Mayeur to whom he also taught the saxophone in the early 1850's
- I.G. Paulus who received the "Légion d'Honneur" in the same year as Klosé
- Cyrille Rose gaining First Prize in 1847.
- Frédéric Selmer did so well that in his final year, 1852, a special "Prize of Honour" was created for him.
- Charles Paul Turban gaining a Second Prize in 1864 and a First Prize in 1865.
[edit] References
- ^ Pamela Weston, Clarinet Virtuosi of the Past, Emerson
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