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(Bass Part). Composed by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. For Bass. This edition: Revised. B...(+)
(Bass Part). Composed by
Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. For
Bass. This edition:
Revised. Book; CD;
Method/Instruction;
String - Bass (Suzuki);
Suzuki. Suzuki Bass
School. 24 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
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9790006564699. 32.5 x
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major.
Mendelssohn'
s Violin Concerto op. 64,
is a key work of the 19th
century, adhering to the
classical style of
Beethoven while pointing
the way to the romantic
ethos of Brahms. It has
long been known that
Mendelssohn performed the
work with three soloists
in succession: Ferdinand
David, who worked closely
with the composer during
its composition and
played it at the
premiere; the 'child
prodigy' Joseph Joachim;
and Hubert Leonard, a
young Belgian virtuoso
about whom little is
known.
As proof
sheets for the Violin
Concerto in E minor were
long considered lost, it
could be described as
somewhat of a sensation
when proofs for the solo
violin part resurfaced
together with a letter
from Mendelssohn to
Leonard.
The
letter informs us that
the composer invited
Leonard to his home in
Frankfurt in order to
make his acquaintance. It
was already known that
Mendelssohn had given
proof sheets to David;
now we know that he also
gave some to
Leonard.
The
recently discovered
proofs reveal how Leonard
played the concerto with
Mendelssohn on that
memorable evening in
February 1845. Besides
containing bowing marks
and fingering, they also
show how Leonard executed
shifts of position and
where he employed open
strings. Furthermore
modifications made to
dynamic markings and
additional legato bowing
are shown.
It is
safe to assume that all
of this was done with
Mendelssohn's approval.
That the young violinist
made a positive
impression on the
composer is confirmed in
the latter's
correspondence following
their joint performance.
Mendelssohn is full of
praise for Leonard's
playing and offers to
lend his support in
finding employment in
Germany.
This
revised edition of the
Mendelssohn Violin
Concerto (only the
orchestral parts remain
unchanged) includes a
separate booklet on
performance practice.
The editor, Clive
Brown, is an acknowledged
expert on Romantic
performance
practice.
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In this work
I gave everything I had
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here I will never do
again. Camille
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justifiably proud of his
Symphony No. 3 in C minor
op. 78, dedicated to the
memory of Franz Liszt.
Like Beethoven's Ninth,
this so-called Organ
Symphony was commissioned
by the Philharmonic
Society in London, where
it received its premiere
on 19 May
1886.
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first scholarly-critical
edition of the symphony,
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inconsistencies and
mistakes inherent in the
previously used edition
have been unveiled and
corrected.
The
edition of Symphony No. 3
marks the launch of a
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Double bass solo
SKU:
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Revised
Version 2010.
Composed by Helmut
Lachenmann. Arranged by
Caleb Salgado. Solo
instruments; Folder.
Edition Breitkopf. Music
post-1945; New music
(post-2000). Score.
Composed 1969/2010. 26
pages. Duration 9'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
9268. Published by
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(BR.EB-9268).
ISBN
9790004185681. 12 x 9
inches.
This piece
originated as an
introduction to
instrumental
musique-concrete. In this
sort of piece it is
common for sound
phenomena to be so
refined and organised
that they are not so much
the results of musical
experiences as of their
own acoustic attributes.
Timbres, dynamics and so
on arise not of their own
volition but as
components of a concrete
situation characterised
by texture, consistency,
energy, resistance.This
does not come from within
but from a liberated
compositional technique.
At the same time it
implies that our
customary sharply-honed
auditory habit is
thwarted. The result is
aesthetic provocation:
beauty denying
habit.(Helmut
Lachenmann),,Cette
nouvelle edition est une
invitation faite aux
violoncellistes qui
souhaiteraient
redecouvrir leur
instrument et la maniere
de la faire sonner en
realisant dessus un
nouveau genre de
polyphonie: une
polyphonie d'actions.
(Francois-Xavier Feron,
Circuit, Heft 25, Juni
2015)CDs/LPs:Michael Bach
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grenzbereich. Zwei Werke
von Helmut Lachenmann und
Hideaki Yamanobe im
Spiegel eines Haiku von
Matsuo Basho, in: Neue
Zeitschrift fur Musik 167
(2006), Heft 1, pp.
36-41.Feron,
Francois-Xavier: Enjeux
et evolution du systeme
de notation dans
,,Pression pour un(e)
violoncelliste de Helmut
Lachenmann, in: Circuit,
Heft 25, 2015, pp.
55-65.GoGwilt, Keir:
Templates for Technique
in Mantel and Lachenmann.
Between Transcendence and
Immanence, in: The Dark
Precursor: Deleuze and
Artistic Research. Band
I: The Dark Precursor in
Sound and Writing, hrsg.
von Paulo de Assis und
Paolo Giudici, Leuven:
Leuven University Press
2017, pp.
105-113.Griffiths, Paul:
ModernMusic and After,
3rd edition, Oxford
University Press 2010,
pp. 216-219.Handschick,
Matthias: Musik als
,,Medium der sich selbst
erfahrenden Wahrnehmung.
Moglichkeiten der
Vermittlung Neuer Musik
unter dem Aspekt der
Auflosung und Reflexion
von Gestalthaftigkeit (=
Schriften der Hochschule
fur Musik Freiburg 3),
Hildesheim u. a.: Olms
2015, dort pp.
161-167.Hiekel, Jorn
Peter: Helmut Lachenmann
und seine Zeit, Laaber:
Laaber 2023, S. 169-172,
231-232.Jahn, Hans-Peter:
simultan eine Erinnerung,
in: Neue Zeitschrift fur
Musik 167 (2006), Heft 1,
pp. 12-15.Lessing,
Wolfgang: Musizieren als
Prozess. Zur didaktischen
Dimension von Helmut
Lachenmanns Pression, in:
Musik inszeniert.
Prasentation und
Vermittlung
zeitgenossischer Musik
heute, hrsg. von Jorn
Peter Hiekel (=
Veroffentlichungen des
Instituts fur Neue Musik
und Musikerziehung
Darmstadt, Band 46),
Mainz u. a.: Schott 2006,
pp. 73-83.ders.:
Verweigerung von
Gewohnheit.
Instrumentaldidaktische
Annaherungen an Pression
von Helmut Lachenmann,
in: Darstellen und
Mitteilen. Ein Handbuch
der musikalischen
Interpretation, hrsg. von
Ursula Brandstatter,
Martin Losert, Christoph
Richter und Andrea Welte,
Mainz: Schott 2010, pp.
111-122.ders.:
Interpretation, Verstehen
und Vermittlung, in: Ans
Licht gebracht. Zur
Interpretation Neuer
Musik, hrsg. von Jorn
Peter Hiekel (=
Veroffentlichungen des
Instituts fur Neue Musik
und Musikerziehung
Darmstadt, Band 53),
Mainz u. a.: Schott 2013,
pp. 24-39.Mosch, Ulrich:
Das Unberuhrte beruhren
Anmerkungen zur
Interpretation von Helmut
Lachenmanns Werken
Pression und Allegro
sostenuto, in: Musik
inszeniert. Prasentation
und Vermittlung
zeitgenossischer Musik
heute, hrsg. von Jorn
Peter Hiekel (=
Veroffentlichungen des
Instituts fur Neue Musik
und Musikerziehung
Darmstadt, Band 46),
Mainz u. a.: Schott 2006,
pp. 25-46.Musik als
Bildkritik Gesprach
zwischen Gottfried Boehm,
Helmut Lachenmann und
Matteo Nanni, in: Helmut
Lachenmann: Musik mit
Bildern? Hrsg. von Matteo
Nanni und Matthias
Schmidt (= eikones, hrsg.
von Nationalen
Forschungsschwerpunkt
Bildkritik an der
Universitat Basel),
Munchen: Wilhelm Fink
2012, pp.
237-269.Neuwirth, Markus:
Strukturell vermittelte
Magie.
Kognitionswissenschaftlic
he Annaherungen an Helmut
Lachenmanns Pression und
Allegro sostenuto, in:
Musik als
Wahrnehmungskunst.
Untersuchungen zu
Kompositionsmethodik und
Horasthetik bei Helmut
Lachenmann, hrsg. von
Christian Utz und Clemens
Gadenstatter (=
musik.theorien der
gegenwart 2),
Saarbrucken: Pfau 2008,
pp. 73-100.Orning, Tanja:
The Polyphonic Performer.
A Study of Performance
Practice in Music for
Cello Solo by Morton
Feldman, Helmut
Lachenmann, Klaus K.
Hubler and Simon
Steen-Andersen, Diss.
Oslo 2014, Oslo:
NMH-publikasjoner (mit
DVD).Sparrer,
Walter-Wolfgang: Wider
den geolten Gleichlauf.
Von der Notwendigkeit
strukturierender
Verfahrensweisen bei der
Interpretation von Musik.
Modell I: Kompositionen
fur Violoncello solo von
J. S. Bach, Isang Yun und
Helmut Lachenmann, in:
Musikalische Produktion
und Interpretation, hrsg.
von Otto Kolleritsch,
Wien/Graz 2003 (= Studien
zur Wertungsforschung,
Band 43), pp. 75-100.Utz,
Christian: Erinnerte
Gestalt und gebannter
Augenblick. Zur Analyse
und Interpretation
post-tonaler Musik als
Wahrnehmungspraxis
Klangorganisation und
Zeiterfahrung bei Morton
Feldman, Helmut
Lachenmann und Brian
Ferneyhough, in: Ans
Licht gebracht. Zur
Interpretation Neuer
Musik, hrsg. von Jorn
Peter Hiekel (=
Veroffentlichungen des
Instituts fur Neue Musik
und Musikerziehung
Darmstadt, Band 53),
Mainz u. a.: Schott 2013,
pp. 40-67.
World
premiere: Como (Autunno
musicale), September 30,
1970.
(Double Bass Solos in Viennese tuning). By Heinz Holliger (1939-2002). For Doubl...(+)
(Double Bass Solos in
Viennese tuning). By
Heinz Holliger
(1939-2002). For Double
Bass. String Solo.
Softcover. 46 pages.
Schott Music #KBB15.
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Double bass - Level 4 SKU: BA.BA07590-85 Composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Edit...(+)
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SKU: BA.BA07590-85
Composed by Giuseppe
Verdi. Edited by Marco
Uvietta. This edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Barenreiter Urtext.
Single part. 20 pages.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA07590_85. Published by
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ISBN
9790006541652. 32.5 x
25.5 cm inches. Preface:
Marco Uvietta.
For
this scholarly-critical
edition, the editor has
consulted no less than 16
sources, many more than
were ever used for any
other edition of the
Requiem; some of these
sources were never
evaluated before and one
source, a hand-written
vocal score, particularly
relevant to the
evaluation of the Liber
scriptus, was newly
discovered.
As
such, this edition offers
new philological and
editorial decisions
regarding phrasing,
articulation and dynamics
and succeeds in
presenting practical
suggestions to solve
musical problems and
those concerning the
interpretation of this
famous work.
This
edition comprises a
concise Critical
Commentary in the score
as well as a detailed one
on the Barenreiter
website. The most
important editions
published in the 19th
century are compared with
regard to musicological
questions in the work.
The genesis of some
misunderstandings
included in the 1913 and
1964 Ricordi editions is
traced. The first version
of the Liber scriptus for
chorus is included in the
appendix while the later
version for mezzosoprano
solo is to be found in
the main part of the
edition.
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Double Bass solo SKU: SU.32020090 For Double Bass solo. Composed b...(+)
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SKU:
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For
Double Bass solo.
Composed by Dorothy
Hindman. Strings,
Contrabass. Score. Subito
Music Corporation
#32020090. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.32020090).
…the
vocabulary of this work
is filled with extended
gestures such as
artificial harmonic
glissandi, bowing behind
the bridge, left hand
hammer-ons, overly
pressed scratchy tones,
etc. The piece has all
the attributes of a great
story, beginning in a
quirky fun manner and
then becoming something
unexpected, a virtuosic
display with a wildly
exciting ending. It is
the effect of the pacing
that is the tour de
force, a one-way downhill
roller coaster
ride…the work
remains in the lower half
of the instrument for the
most part and only
ventures into the very
highest registers for
effect. The extraordinary
challenge is to execute
the variety of extended
gestures within the tempo
over eleven minutes. To
play this work
successfully requires
mastering the art of Time
Management. ~Hans Sturm,
editor. Bass WorldDouble
Bass solo Duration: 12'
Composed: 2004 Published
by: Distributed
Composer.
Double bass SKU: BR.EOS-20897-27 Suite in Olden Style. Composed by...(+)
Double bass
SKU:
BR.EOS-20897-27
Suite in Olden
Style. Composed by
Edvard Grieg. Edited by
Richard Clarke.
Orchestra; stapled.
Eulenburg Orchestral
Series.
Breitkopf is
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release of new and
complete performance
material in the framework
of its cooperation with
Eulenburg.
Romantic
period. Part. 4 pages.
Duration 20'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EOS
20897-27. Published by
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ISBN 9790004780107. 10
x 12.5 inches.
In
1884 the Norwegian city
of Bergen celebrated the
200th birthday of Ludvig
Holberg, one of its most
famous sons and a
symbolic figure of the
late Baroque era. For
this occasion Grieg wrote
the piano suite Aus
Holbergs Zeit , which he
orchestrated for string
orchestra. To this day,
the Suite - particularly
in this arrangement -
ranks among Grieg's most
popular works. By using
the romantic string
sound, Grieg brings the
late Baroque orchestral
suite and its various
dance forms to life
again. Along with the
string serenades of
Dvorak and Tchaikovsky,
Aus Holbergs Zeit is
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Breitko
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Double Bass SKU: BT.YE0007 Yorke Edition. Composed by F. Baines. B...(+)
Double Bass
SKU:
BT.YE0007
Yorke
Edition. Composed by
F. Baines. Book Only.
Yorke Edition #YE0007.
Published by Yorke
Edition (BT.YE0007).
Born in Oxford
in 1917, Francis Baines
was a well-known and much
respected professional
double bass player. He
studied at the Royal
College of Music in
London with Claude
Hobday, where he later
taught. Something of an
eccentric,he immersed
himself in early music at
a time when few people
were taking it seriously.
He owned a beautiful
Amati bass that he had
restored as a violone,
which it probably was
originally, and he was a
regular fixture as
aprincipal player in a
number of orchestras and
ensembles that dedicated
themselves to period
performing, including
those directed by Denys
Darlow, with whom he
broadcast and recorded
frequently.
Besi
des playing
thedoublebass, Francis
Baines was an exponent of
the treble viol and led
the Jaye Consort of Viols
which he founded. He also
played several kinds of
bagpipe and the
hurdy-gurdy. As a
composer he dabbled in
many styles, one of
hisgreatest claims to
fame being that of
writing for the popular
Hoffnung concerts in the
1960s.
He was
the author of a number of
papers about the history
of the double bass,
sometimes arriving at
scholarly conclusionsthat
were colourful, if not
always entirely accurate.
He discovered the
Giovannino del Violone
sonatas, subsequently
published by Yorke
Edition, although today
it is thought that they
were probably not written
for a 16' pitchinstrument
at all. His edition of
the Capuzzi double bass
concerto, published by
Boosey & Hawkes, was for
many years one of the few
solo works available for
the instrument. This,
however, he largely
re-composed because
hethought it could be
improved: towards the end
of his life he confessed
that with hindsight he
probably should have
treated it
differently.
Gro
unds was written in 1969
as a sort of party piece
and was given to
YorkeEdition in support
of a drive to enlarge the
repertoire for the
instrument in a wide
variety of styles. It was
set on the syllabus of
the Associated Board of
the Royal Schools of
Music for many
years.
Double Bass SKU: BA.BA08833-85 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Edited b...(+)
Double Bass
SKU:
BA.BA08833-85
Composed by Ludwig van
Beethoven. Edited by
Helga Lühning. This
edition: urtext edition.
Stapled. Single part.
Composed 1806. No. 3. 7
pages. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA08833_85.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA08833-85).
ISBN 9790006567584.
32.5 x 25.5 cm
inches.
Sooner or
later theRomantic
Pieceswill pave their way
through all the salons:
thus the periodical
Dalibor predicted when
theRomantic Piecesop. 75
were first issued by the
publisher Simrock in
1887. Since then they
have become some of
Dvorak's most popular
works for violin and
piano. Now they are being
made available for
violists
also.
Bella and
Semjon Kalinowsky have
arranged the four pieces
on the basis of
theComplete Edition of
the Works of Antonin
Dvorak. The piano part of
the original version
remains, while the violin
part has been adapted for
viola; it has been
transcribed into the alto
clef and includes
fingering and bowing
marks.
With their
entrancing melodies and
poetry, these pieces pose
few technical challenges
and are thus easy to
play.
(A Comprehensive Curriculum for Use During Fundamentals Time). Composed by Scott...(+)
(A Comprehensive
Curriculum for Use During
Fundamentals Time).
Composed by Scott Rush.
For double bass. Habits
of a Successful Musician.
Music Education - Band
Method. Method book. 72
pages. Published by GIA
Publications
Double Bass SKU: HL.14021087 Composed by John McCabe. Music Sales America...(+)
Double Bass
SKU:
HL.14021087
Composed
by John McCabe. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. 8
pages. Music Sales
#NOV955163. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14021087).
8.25x12.0x0.059
inches.
John
McCabe's
Pueblo
for solo Double
Bass. Duration: approx. 7
minutes.
Pueblo
is an off-shoot of a
series of compositions
inspired by desert
country, and it was
commissioned by Leon
Bosch with the aid of
funds provided by North
West Arts. The piece is
continous, falling into
several sections, and is
largeley based on the
high circling motif heard
at the start and referred
to again in the harmonics
at the close.
It is
prefaced by the following
quotation from Scenes in
American Deserta by
Reyner Banham, published
by Thames and
Hudson:
'Clouds, high and
flat, were now building
up in thesky, the wind
was settling to silent
calm, the weather was
very cold, and the stream
through the center of the
pueblo was almost frozen
across, the Indians
chipping out ice to melt
down for water.'
The aim in writing
the piece was to express
in musical terms a
response to the vivid
picture of a scene
relating to life in the
American desert conveyed
by Reyner Banham's text.
Although not numbered
among other Desert works,
this belongs to this
family of compositions,
along with another Banham
setting, written for the
King's Singers, Scenes In
America Deserta. -
John
McCabe <
/em>
Double Bass SKU: BT.YE0064 Composed by F. Petracchi. Book Only. 34 pages....(+)
Double Bass
SKU:
BT.YE0064
Composed by
F. Petracchi. Book Only.
34 pages. Yorke Edition
#YE0064. Published by
Yorke Edition
(BT.YE0064).
The Italian
virtuoso Francesco
Petracchi enjoys an
international reputation
both as a player and a
teacher. This book is the
essence of his teaching
and explains his system
of fingering in the thumb
positions with clarity
and withmany musical
examples.
Written by Gerald E. Anderson, Kathleen Brungard, Michael Alexander, Sandra Dack...(+)
Written by Gerald E.
Anderson, Kathleen
Brungard, Michael
Alexander, Sandra Dackow.
Instructional Book & CD
for string bass. Series:
Orchestra Expressions. 56
pages. Published by
Alfred Publishing
Double bass solo SKU: BR.EB-8986 23 Song Settings for Young String Pla...(+)
Double bass solo
SKU:
BR.EB-8986
23 Song
Settings for Young String
Players. Composed by
Esther Klein and Michael
Dartsch. Solo
instruments. Edition
Breitkopf. Music
pedagogy. Sheet Music.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
8986. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-8986).
ISBN
9790004187159. 0 x 0
inches.
German.
Songs are
part of the childhood.
This collection aims to
offer a variety of songs
for string ensembles,
such as young string
orchestras or string
classes. Included are
older and newer songs,
songs of various origins,
and songs for different
occasions and with themes
ranging from animals to
seasons and times of day
to tongue-in-cheek scary
subjects.Taking up the
motif of diversity in
their own way, the
six-part arrangements are
not confined to the usual
cadence harmonies and
accompaniment forms,
There is something
special to discover in
each of the songs. Small
vignettes with lyrics to
them are found in the
parts, and can be taken
up in rehearsals and
lessons.The songs begin
with fingering positions
and bowing techniques
that are usually learned
at the beginning of
lessons, then gradually
increase in difficulty,
though the booklet as a
whole is set at the
elementary level.
Suggestions for
improvisation and pieces
for practicing certain
requirements round out
the booklet. Special
emphasis is placed on
playing together - true
to the title: Together on
Strings!
With CDs of Performances and Accompaniments. Edited by Catherine Elliott. Bo...(+)
With CDs of Performances
and
Accompaniments. Edited by
Catherine Elliott. Boosey
&
Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover with
CD.
60 pages. Boosey &
Hawkes
#M060132261. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
Double Bass SKU: BT.YE0030 Composed by F. Keyper. Exam Material. Book Onl...(+)
Double Bass
SKU:
BT.YE0030
Composed by
F. Keyper. Exam Material.
Book Only. Yorke Edition
#YE0030. Published by
Yorke Edition
(BT.YE0030).
An easy
virtuoso work published
here for the first time
and now much performed.
Recorded Slatford/Academy
of St
Martin-in-the-Fields
(EMI). AMEB (Australian
Syllabus) 2004.
Orchestral material on
hire from Yorke Edition
(notSpartan).
Pr
ogramme Note:
As
a young professional
player in the 1960s, my
work as a double bassist
with chamber ensembles
and small orchestras took
me all over the world.
This presented an
unparalleledopportunity
to scour libraries and
archives wherever I went.
Long before the advent of
the photocopier and
e-mail, research was far
more challenging than it
is today. Eastern Europe
was particularly
difficult to access,
withmanycollections kept
under lock and key for
all but a few hours a
week. One quickly found
colleagues who were keen
to share information
gleaned in passing, even
though they had no
specific interest in
one's own
particularspecialism (it
is so often the
peripheral topics that
fascinate as much as the
main subject under
investigation, and one
can quickly be
side-tracked into
political and social
issues that have only
slender bearing on the
job inhand!).
In
the early 1970s James
Brown, the then
sub-principal oboist of
the English Chamber
Orchestra with whom I was
working at the time,
stumbled across a small
collection of double bass
manuscripts at the
RoyalDanish State Library
in Copenhagen. They were
by Franz Anton Leopold
Keÿper (b. c.1756, d.
Copenhagen 7 June 1815),
a double bassist of Dutch
origin who worked as
principal of the Royal
Chapel Orchestra in
Copenhagen.Keÿper's son
was the bassoonist Franz
Jacob August Keÿper
(1792-1859). The
collection included a
number of concertos, some
chamber music, and
various naïve fragments.
Although hardly the work
of a Mozart or Haydn,the
style is characteristic
of the period. For an
instrument such as the
double bass, whose 18th
century solo repertoire
is largely written for
tunings that are no
longer in everyday use,
Keÿper's music is easily
approachablein its.