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French clarinet player

Hyacinthe Eléonore Klosé (11 October 1808 – 29 August 1880) was a French clarinet player, professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, and composer.

Life and music

Klosé was born in Corfu (Greece). He was second clarinet at the Théâtre Italien to Frédéric Berr beginning in 1836, then to Iwan Müller following Berr's death in 1838, finally becoming solo clarinettist when Müller left in 1841.

In the Paris Conservatory, Klosé had many notable pupils including:^[1]

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  Boutruy, who received First Prize in 1852.

• A. Grisez, who received First Prize in 1857.
• Augusta Holmès.
• Adolphe Marthe Leroy, who succeeded Klosé in his Paris professorship in 1868.
• Louis A. Mayeur, to whom he also taught the saxophone in the early 1850s.
• I.G.

  Paulus, who received the "Légion d'Honneur" in the same year as Klosé.

• Cyrille Rose, who received First Prize in 1847.
• Frédéric Selmer, who was so accomplished that a special "Prize of Honour" was c