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Madeuf - Revival of Natural Trumpet
Madeuf - Revival of Natural Trumpet
Early Music, Vol. xxxviii, No. 2 © The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. 203
doi:10.1093/em/caq016, available online at www.em.oxfordjournals.org
Advanced Access published on April 30, 2010
Clearly, aside from the technical aspect, enor- judgement, in order to find the energy needed to
mous mental strength is necessary for tackling this play this physically exhausting and nerve-wracking
difficult instrument and the heavy symbolic charge aria to the end.
attached to it. One’s attitude towards the audience I would like to conclude by listing a few of the
and to the repertory influences the sonic and musi- indispensable human qualities one should develop
cal results. When a trumpet player in Part III of first, in order to create favourable conditions for
Handel’s Messiah gets to the obbligato trumpet mastering this difficult instrument: humility and
part in the bass aria ‘The trumpet shall sound’, sensitivity, passion and patience, since, as my trum-
he or she must not only play the part, but really pet teacher Pierre Dutot said, ‘nous jouons comme
must be the angel-trumpeter announcing the last nous sommes’!
Jean-François Madeuf studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, where he
has also taught since 1993. After a brief career as an orchestral player and conservatory teacher, he sue-
ceeded Edward H. Tarr at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 2001. He performs with numerous French
and other European Baroque ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Le Concert Spirituel and La Petite
Bande, and is (still) currently one of the few trumpeters who play the natural trumpet in the histori-
cally correct fashion, without the aid of the corrective vent-holes which have been used since the 1960s.
madeus @gmail.com
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