Sandro N. answered 02/19/20
Singer, conductor and essayist giving Music History lessons
Henry Fillmore popularized the use of trombone smears (aka “glissando”) which seems to have originated in Europe and America in the 19th century. In classical orchestral music it is already found in Aleksandr Glazunov’s “The Sea” (1889), as well as in Edward Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius” (1899) and Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pelleas und Melisande” (1902/03). A famous trombone’s glissando passage is also in Stravinskij’s “Pulcinella” (1919/20).