"Military Band Studies for Tuba", out of print?
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Re: "Military Band Studies for Tuba", out of print?
According to my extensive internet research, Paul de Ville was the author of the Universal Guide to the Saxophone, which still seems to be a standard work. Theodore Moses-Tobani was born in Hamburg in 1855, moved to the U. S. while young, then back to Europe after he showed himself to be a prodigy as a violinist and composer. The family moved back to the U. S. in 1870 and he wound up working for Carl Fisher where he wrote so much that the company forced him to write under pseudonyms. His most successful composition was "Hearts and Flowers," in 1893. He wrote it in half an hour. He died in 1933. A Fantasia on "Auld Land Syne" excerpted in the book is listed as Moses-Tobani's Opus 454.