Clarinet Sonatas Clarinette et Piano [Conducteur] Breitkopf & Härtel
Clarinet and piano SKU: BR.EB-32111 Urtext. Composed by Camillo Sc...(+)
Clarinet and piano
SKU: BR.EB-32111
Urtext. Composed
by Camillo Schumann. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf.
The
first edition of a
forgotten treasure
Sonata; Late-romantic.
Score. 68 pages.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
32111. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-32111).
ISBN
9790004186763. 9 x 12
inches.
There are
many composers of whom it
is said today that they
had gone back in time or
had composed against
contemporary taste.
Today, the question
arises, though, as to
what of value is to be
extracted, rediscovered,
or re-edited. Camillo
Schumann (1872-1946) is
one of these nearly
forgotten composers. His
works are still largely
unknown today. Schumann's
tonal language combines
the Brahmsian sound scape
with the grand late
romantic Liszt school.
His piano pieces range
even to sounds
reminiscent of
Rachmaninoff and are of
tremendous power and
virtuosity. The
pronounced and inventive
melody makes the works
the testimony of a
composer who has not yet
come to the fore. His two
sonatas for clarinet and
piano have hitherto
remained completely
unknown. This is
astonishing, for they are
on the level of the
sonatas of Johannes
Brahms, who probably
contributed the most
essentially to this
genre. Surfacing as a
special treasure from the
estate of the Saxon
musicologist and
collector Harald Schurz
were the autographs of
both clarinet sonatas,
now to be published for
the first time. Remember
falling in love with the
expressive qualities of
the Brahms sonatas? You
can rekindle that feeling
with these works by
Camillo Schumann.
Commentators have
compared Schumann's works
not only to Brahms, but
also to Liszt and
Rachmaninoff. Run to your
shop and order
now.(Gregory Barrett, The
Clarinet)
Clarinet Sonatas Clarinette et Piano [Conducteur] Breitkopf & Härtel
Clarinet and piano SKU: BR.EB-32112 Urtext. Composed by Camillo Sc...(+)
Clarinet and piano
SKU: BR.EB-32112
Urtext. Composed
by Camillo Schumann. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf. The
first edition of a
forgotten treasure.
Sonata; Late-romantic.
Score. 52 pages.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
32112. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-32112).
ISBN
9790004186770. 9 x 12
inches.
There are
many composers of whom it
is said today that they
had gone back in time or
had composed against
contemporary taste.
Today, the question
arises, though, as to
what of value is to be
extracted, rediscovered,
or re-edited. Camillo
Schumann (1872-1946) is
one of these nearly
forgotten composers. His
works are still largely
unknown today. Schumann's
tonal language combines
the Brahmsian sound scape
with the grand late
romantic Liszt school.
His piano pieces range
even to sounds
reminiscent of
Rachmaninoff and are of
tremendous power and
virtuosity. The
pronounced and inventive
melody makes the works
the testimony of a
composer who has not yet
come to the fore. His two
sonatas for clarinet and
piano have hitherto
remained completely
unknown. This is
astonishing, for they are
on the level of the
sonatas of Johannes
Brahms, who probably
contributed the most
essentially to this
genre. Surfacing as a
special treasure from the
estate of the Saxon
musicologist and
collector Harald Schurz
were the autographs of
both clarinet sonatas,
now to be published for
the first time. Remember
falling in love with the
expressive qualities of
the Brahms sonatas? You
can rekindle that feeling
with these works by
Camillo Schumann.
Commentators have
compared Schumann's works
not only to Brahms, but
also to Liszt and
Rachmaninoff. Run to your
shop and order
now.(Gregory Barrett, The
Clarinet)
Clarinet and Piano SKU: ST.C143 Composed by Alexander Glazunov. Wind & br...(+)
Clarinet and Piano
SKU: ST.C143
Composed by Alexander
Glazunov. Wind & brass
music. Clifton Edition
#C143. Published by
Clifton Edition
(ST.C143).
ISBN
9790570811434.
Alex
ander Konstantinovich
Glazunov (1865-1936)
trained under Rimsky-
Korsakov and became the
most illustrious Russian
composer and conductor
immediately succeeding
Tchaikovsky. Glazunov’s
close affinity with the
Saint Petersburg
Conservatory, of which
institution he would
later become Director for
more than two decades,
placed him ideally to
assist in the
Institute’s transition
to the Petrograd
Conservatory in the
immediate wake of the
Bolshevik Revolution of
1917. For the last six
years of his life,
Glazunov left the USSR,
feeling hemmed in by
propagandist restrictions
and at the same time out
of kilter with the
Modernist
movement.
He lived
in exile for a time,
touring the USA, before
eventually settling in
Paris, though his stoical
brand of Russian
Romanticism never waned.
Despite being partly
remembered for having
taught Shostakovich,
Glazunov was never known
as a revolutionary
composer, more inclined
to align himself with
19th century ideologies
than with the thrusting
new compositional paths
forged by Prokofiev and
others. Indeed, the
nationalistic movement so
successfully espoused by
Balakirev found a new
energy in Glazunov’s
hands, and he discovered
an opulence of scale
which leaned more in the
direction of
Borodin.
There can
be no doubting
Glazunov’s technical
mastery, which
successfully drew
together contrapuntal,
lyrical and virtuosic
skills, and which were
admired by the likes of
Liszt. Glazunov steered a
steady course at a time
when it was most sorely
needed; one need only
hear the marvellous
Violin Concerto in A
minor to experience the
full power and authority
of his writing, though he
possessed an enviable
touch with more intimate
forms too, such as those
readily to be heard in
these three charming
Miniatures
Op.42, originally
composed for
piano. Clarinet and
Piano Transcribed by
M
ark Tanner Grades
6 & 7 (Trinity Grades
6 & 7
syllabuses) Former
Spartan Press Cat. No.:
SP1360.