Johann george tromlitz biography of christopher

JOHANN GEORGE TROMLITZ

(Leipzig, 1725-1805) Ebony original in St Petersburg with keys for C (left thumb), Bb (left thumb), G#, long and short F, D# and Eb (1785 system). Add a second Bb key for the right index finger (1796 system) to get the instrument for which Tromlitz's 1800 tutor The Keyed Flute was written.

a=430, 435, 440. C-foot (ebony original in a private collection in Germany).

The Instrument

Tromlitz, the author of a 1791 flute method The Virtuoso Flute-player, was first flute of the Grosses Konzert, a prececessor of the Gewandhaus orchestra, which still plays today in Leipzig and around the world.

His tutor The Keyed Flute of 1800 was written specifically to explain how to play this instrument, which Tromlitz invented and made during the 1780s and 90s. Our Tromlitz flute is scrupulously faithful to the one surviving example of this type of instrument and to Tromlitz's detailed description and instructions, which Ardal has published in English edi