About Heinrich Grenser
Lived 1764 – 1813 (aged 49). Heinrich Grenser was a German musical instrument maker.
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Grenser (5 March 1764 – 12 December 1813) was a German musical instrument maker.
From 1779 to 1786 he was apprenticed to his uncle, August Grenser, a Dresden instrument maker, and after his apprenticeship he continued to work in August's shop, taking it over himself in 1796. Heinrich Grenser invented an early form of bass clarinet in 1793, and may have been the inventor of the alto clarinet, beginning production in 1808.
Grenser died in Dresden in 1813.
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Who was Heinrich Grenser?
German musical instrument maker (1764-1813)
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Heinrich Grenser was born on 5 March 1764 in Bleicherode.
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Heinrich Grenser died on 12 December 1813 in Dresden.
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Heinrich Grenser was a musical instrument maker.
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Heinrich Grenser was German.
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