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| | Willy Brandt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The trumpeter, composer, and conductor Willy Brandt (18691923) came from Bavaria, emigrated to Moscow, and exerted a decisive influence on the Russian school of trumpet playing. |
 | | On the 3rd of September, 1890, Brandt appeared at an audition for the position of 1st trumpeter in the opera orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, a few minutes too late. |
 | | Brandt thrived on new operas in the repertoire by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and others, and enjoyed the respect and good feelings of the orchestra and his brassplaying colleagues. |
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