Birthday of Johann Christoph Denner

Birthday of Johann Christoph Denner

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August 13, 2031

Johann Christoph Denner (Leipzig, August 13, 1655) Fuerstenau relates that Denner was the first to make important improvements in the transverse flute. Besides his celebrity as a maker of all sorts of wood-wind instruments, Denner was famous as a flute player. In 1690, he invented the clarinet.

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