Preface - About practising - Breathing and posture - Legato exercises: - One finger - two fingers - Three or four fngers - Cross-hand fingerings - ab', a' and bb' key - First change of register - High register - Difficult fingerings - Basset clarinet, bass clarinet, basset horn - Sound exercises - Articulation: - Exercises for single tonguing - Exercises for double tounging - The clarinet reed - Recommended reading/playing

With 'Clarinet Fundamentals', Reiner Wehle presents a three-volume basic work for the study of the clarinet. Volume 1 deals with sound exercises and articulation, including themes such as 'Practising' and 'The clarinet reed'. Volumes 2 and 3 deal with 'Fingering technique and dexterity' as well as 'Intonation'. The annotated list of references (sheet music and books) shall encourage further studies.
Reiner Wehle has given numerous master classes, is a sought-after jury member at renowned competitions, and has been professor at the Music Academy of Lübeck since 1993.

Reiner Wehle, born in Kiel, Germany in 1954, studied the clarinet with Hans Deinzer in Hanover and Guy Deplus in Paris. He has been awarded numerous internatio nal prizes, for example at competitions in Prague, Colmar, Martigny, Toulon and at the ARD Competition in Munich. In 1979 he was winner of the First Prize at the "Deutscher Musikwettbewerb" in Bonn. He has held engagements in various prestigious orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (with Sergio Celibidache) and the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra at Hanover. He is a member of the "Lucerne Festival Orchestra", playing under the direction of Claudio Abbado.
As a soloist, he has performed with many orchestras in a host of different countries (e.g. the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, the Hanover Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of Copenhagen, amongst others). He is an active chamber musician and has played worldwide with the Trio di Clarone, the Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer, the Ensemble Kontraste and the Trio Integral. He has made several CD recordings on the EMI Classics, Thorofon, ambitus and Novalis labels. He has twice received the highly acclaimed "Echo Prize" for the CD of the year (1999 and 2000).
Since 1992, he has held a professorship at the "Musikhochschule Lübeck" together with his wife, Sabine Meyer. As well as giving a large number of masterclasses in different countries (e.g. in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, China, Bulgaria, and Israel), he has been a jury member at numerous renowned music competitions.