Herbert l clarke biography of michael jackson

The World's Greatest Cornet Player?

September 2003 sees the 135th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Clarke, possibly the most famous cornet player the world has ever seen and heard.

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HERBERT LINCOLN CLARKE was born on September 12, 1867 in Woburn, Massachusetts, one of five sons to Eliza and William Horatio Clarke, themselves descendants of early settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Herbert’s father was a versatile and competent musician who devoted the majority of is expertise to the organ and composition.

Three of Herbert’s brothers, Will, Edwin, and Ernest, excelled in musical studies, and both Edwin and Ernest performed at a professional level on cornet and trombone, respectively. In Herbert’s early years the Clarke family moved to Ohio, Indiana, back to Massachusetts, and at 12 years of age to Toronto, Ontario, as his father assumed various positions as church organist, organ builder, and teacher.

Clarke’s early musical instruction as on violin