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Johann Christoph Denner (bap. August 13, 1655; bur. April 26,1707), was a famous woodwind
Woodwind instrument

A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument which produces sound when the player blows air against an edge of, or opening in, the instrument, causing the air to vibrate within a resonator....
 instrument maker of the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 era, to whom the invention of the clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
 is often attributed.

Denner was born in Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
 to a family of horn-turners. With his father, Heinrich Denner, a maker of game whistle
Whistle

A whistle or call is a simple aerophone, an musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means....
s and hunting horn
Horn (instrument)

The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. It is descended from the natural horn and is informally known as the French horn....
s, he moved to Nuremberg
Nuremberg

Nuremberg is a city in the Germany State of Bavaria, in the Regierungsbezirk of Middle Franconia. It is situated on the Pegnitz River river and the Rhine?Main?Danube Canal and is Franconia's largest city....
 in 1666. J. C. Denner went into business as an instrument maker in 1678. Two of his sons, Jacob and Johann David, also became instrument builders.






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Johann Christoph Denner (bap. August 13, 1655; bur. April 26,1707), was a famous woodwind
Woodwind instrument

A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument which produces sound when the player blows air against an edge of, or opening in, the instrument, causing the air to vibrate within a resonator....
 instrument maker of the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 era, to whom the invention of the clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
 is often attributed.

Denner was born in Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
 to a family of horn-turners. With his father, Heinrich Denner, a maker of game whistle
Whistle

A whistle or call is a simple aerophone, an musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means....
s and hunting horn
Horn (instrument)

The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. It is descended from the natural horn and is informally known as the French horn....
s, he moved to Nuremberg
Nuremberg

Nuremberg is a city in the Germany State of Bavaria, in the Regierungsbezirk of Middle Franconia. It is situated on the Pegnitz River river and the Rhine?Main?Danube Canal and is Franconia's largest city....
 in 1666. J. C. Denner went into business as an instrument maker in 1678. Two of his sons, Jacob and Johann David, also became instrument builders. At least sixty-eight instruments attributed to J. C. Denner have survived to the present day. Denner died in 1707 and was buried in Nuremberg.

In 1730, Johann Gabriel Doppelmeyr wrote of Denner:

At the beginning of the current century, he invented a new kind of pipe-work, the so-called clarinet... and at length presented an improved chalumeau.


On the basis of this passage, Denner has been credited by many with the improvement of the chalumeau
Chalumeau

This article is about the historical musical instrument. For the register on the clarinet that is named for this instrument, see Clarinet#Range.The 'chalumeau' is a woodwind instrument of the late baroque music and early classical period era, in appearance rather like a recorder, but with a mouthpiece like a clarinet's....
 and the invention of the clarinet. Despite the words "At the beginning of the current century" he is often said to have developed the clarinet in 1690; there is no evidence for this. In fact, J. C. Denner may have built no clarinets at all. Only one extant clarinet, owned by the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
 has been attributed to him, and this attribution has been challenged. Another instrument possibly made by Denner was destroyed in World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. The earliest known reference to the clarinet is an invoice
Invoice

An invoice or bill is a Commerce document issued by a sales to the buyer, indicating the product s, quantities, and agreed prices for products or Service s the seller has provided the buyer....
 from Jacob Denner
Jacob Denner

Jacob Denner was a woodwind instrument maker of Nuremberg.He was the son of Johann Christoph Denner, improver of the chalumeau and inventor of the clarinet....
 dated 1710, three years after J. C. Denner's death.