Death of a trumpet legend, 83
mainEdward H Tarr, founder of the Edward Tarr Brass Ensemble and an international authority on period practice, has died at his home in Rheinfelden at the age of 83.
Connecticut born, he studied with Roger Voisin of the Boston Symphony and with Adolph Herseth in Chicago before joining Karl Richter’s Munich Bach Orchestra with whom he made the first of about 100 recordings.
He taught in Basle for 30 years and owned what might be the world’s largest trumpet collection.
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