Stanley Drucker
Sign in to saveAmerican musician (1929–2022)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Music for clarinet and piano
- Music for clarinet
- Easy Original Clarinet Solos
- Music Minus One Clarinet
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929-02-04
- Active to
- 2022-12-19
american clarinetistclarinetistclassical
Discography
- Contrasts / Out of Doors / Sonata for Solo Violin
- El Salón México / Clarinet Concerto / Connotations / Music for the Theatre1991
- John Corigliano: Clarinet Concerto / Samuel Barber: Third Essay for Orchestra1992
- New York Legends: Stanley Drucker: Principal clarinet, New York Philharmonic1998
- Stanley Drucker Plays Brahms2001
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 252
- Total plays
- 1,023
Principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic for 60 years, the longest tenure of any member of the orchestra in it's history. Retiring this year (2009) at age 80. Was admitted to Curtis Institute at age 15 and got his first professional job with the Cleveland Orchestra at the end of his freshman year at Curtis. Drucker played the clarinet theme from Rhapsody in Blue that opens Woody Allen's film Manhattan. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stanley+Drucker">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stanley
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Vista
- Occupation
- clarinetist
- Educated at
- Curtis Institute of Music
- Employer
- New York Philharmonic
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- timpani
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1929-02-04
- start of work period
- 1945-00-00
- date of death
- 2022-12-19
- name in native language
- Stanley Drucker
- end of work period
- 2009-00-00
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