Previous posts for September 7th are here: Buddy Holly; Gloria Gaynor (2019) and François-André Danican Philidor; Arthur Ferrante (2020)
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Heinrich Stölzel (7 September 1777 – 16 February 1844) was a German horn player who developed the first valve for a brass musical instrument.
A Short Lecture on Brasses
Today attention should be paid
To the horn that Stölzel made.
It had two valves by which to switch
The fundamental sounding pitch.
Though purists long objected to it,
Stölzel had the edge, and knew it!
And that, my eager freshman class, is
How we got our modern brasses.
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Madeleine Dring (7 September 1923 – 26 March 1977) was an English composer and actress.
Dring-a-Ling
About Madeleine Dring
I know only one thing,
Though her name turns up once in a while;
Her oeuvre, though slight,
Is both cheerful and bright
In a pseudo-Poulencian style.
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