Dirk Klöffer
oboes-bassoons-historical woodwind
Vogesenstr.5
79194 Gundelfingen/Germany
tel 0049(0)761/3840369
Welcome to my website,
On this site you will find informations to my production of historical woodwindinstruments.
After my music studies at Bad.Konservatorium/Karlsruhe with W.Helm(Solooboist Bad.Staatskapelle),Musikhochschule Stuttgart with W.Schnell(Solooboist Opera Stuttgart),Musikhochschule Karlsruhe with G.Meerwein(Solooboist Bamberger Sinfoniker)and with M.Piguet/baroqueoboe at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis,i have been active as an oboist,bassoonist,pianist,cembalist,composer,conductor and also as an editor of unknown music for doublereeds from 18th century in cooperation with Befocoverlag-Coburg.
I started making historical woodwindinstruments in 1990 working together with the following institutions:
Germanisches Nationalmuseum-Nürnberg/Germany
thanks to Markus Raquet and Dr.Klaus Martius for their help wirth the Eichentopfbassoon
Musikwissenschaftliches Institut -Göttingen/Germany,thanks to Dr.Klaus-Peter Brenner
Händelhaus Halle/Germany
special thanks to Christiane Rieche for her kind support with the Eichentopfoboe
Grassimuseum Leipzig/Germany
many thanks to the staff of the museum,especially to Wolfgang Seume for his help with many instruments from the collection
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz-Berlin/Germany
thanks to Bernhard Wittenbrink for more than 20 years kind support in historical woodwind research
also thanks to the staff of Richard Wagnermuseum/Tribschen/Swizerland and to Stefan Beck/Berlin for his help
with the oboe da caccia made by Weigel