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.
