Baroque Specialist Worked as a Miner Before Turning to Trumpet
Maurice Andre, who attracted many a music lover to the joys of classical music, has died at the age of seventy-eight. One writer in France stated that
Andre elevated "the trumpet to the level of serious classical concert music and encouraged contemporary composers like Andre Jolivet and Marcel Landowski to write for the instrument."
As a young classical music broadcaster, Maurice Andre was one of my very early favorites. He will be missed. Read Maurice André..."le grand trompettiste de notre temps" (abel.hive.no) Watch Maurice Andre play Bach's Brandenburg #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIX_XVji9UA&feature=related