[Trombone-l] "Music for Bass Trombone and Orchestra"

[Clinton F. Nieweg]

Dear Colleagues,

I am nearing completion of an anthology of "Music for Bass Trombone and Orchestra",to be published in the near future. For consistency's sake, I would like to include complete life dates for persons given an entry but still lack some details for the people listed below. If anyone could supply confirmed information for these individuals, or contact information for living composers,  I would be very grateful!

Appel, C.  (  -  ) [Appel, Carl Ludwig Ernst, 1857?-1934?]
Baker, Thomas (  - ) "Concerto" 1965  [Not the Thomas Baker listed in Canada]
DEICHERT, [name?] ( - ) According to Fétis, there were two brothers by the name of Deichert active in Kassel between 1830 and 1850. “Konzertino für Bass-Posaune”.
GORDON, Christopher (London, b?; - ) 
(British-born composer who has spent the majority of his working career in Australia).
HILL-SPURDLE, Karen J.  ( - ) New Zealand?
KESSINGER, James  ( - )  “Concerto”
KUMMER, Friedrich August (b. Meiningen, 5 August 1797 – d. ? )
KUMMER, G.  [probably KUMMER, Kaspar (Gaspard) (b Erlau, 10 Dec. 1795 – d Coburg, 21 May 1870)]   [Listed in Everett as KRummer, G,]
LEBEDEV, A. [Alexej] (b Dankov Russia, 9 Jan 1924; d [?] 1993).
MEYER, Carl Heinrich (b Nordhausen, Thuringia, ?/? 1772 – d ? )
NOVAK, Jiří František (b ?/? 1913; d ?/? 1993)  Czech
PARRIS, Robert  (b ?/? 1924 Philadelphia Pa; d 5 Dec 1999 Washington DC)
PILSS, Karl (b Vienna 4 April 1902 - d Vienna [?] 22 June 1979).
PROCTOR, Simon ( British city? b ?/? 1959; -  ).
RANALLO, Ronald J. ( - )   work written in 1973.
SACHSE, Ernst (b 1808? 1810? 1813? – d 1849? 1868? 1870? Per different databases.)  
SCHRAMM, Robert  ( - )
STROBL, Otto (b Wiesen Burgenland Austria, ?/? 1927 - )
UY, [ne Uyttebrouck] Paul (b place ?/? 1932; - ) (Belgium oboist, orchestrator, conductor and composer)
VALERIO, Raphael  (b. New York NY 25 July 1919; - [?] )

If you can help, please reply directly to me. To avoid any ambiguity the format is date / month spelled out / year.
If you know of any manuscripts that might not be listed in the music databases, that information would be valuable to add to the book.

Thank you for your time in providing information that will help all bass trombonists,

Clinton F. Nieweg.
(research for Librarians - Conductors - Performers).
proofferr(at)comcast(dot)net

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