Piano Accompaniment;
Tenor Saxophone (Tenor
Sax)
SKU:
HL.48024890
Tenor
Saxophone and Piano.
Composed by Bertold
Hummel. Boosey & Hawkes
Chamber Music. Classical.
Softcover. 20 pages.
Duration 360 seconds.
Simrock #M221122599.
Published by Simrock
(HL.48024890).
UPC:
840126919783.
As a
lesson and lecture piece,
Bertold Hummel's Sonatine
op. 35, created in 1969,
accompanied many young
musicians on their way.
Sold a thousand times all
over the world, it is one
of the composer's
best-known works and has
been included in the
repertoire list for the
'Jugend musiziert'
competition by the German
Music Council. Warmth and
sparkling rhythm
characterize the three
movements: inthe powerful
maestoso, the sonority of
the main theme is
contrasted with a lyrical
side theme; the
recapitulation ends with
an impulsive fugato. The
second movement Elegie
consists of a single
soulful melody about
spherical harmonies of
the piano. As the
highlight in the Finale
vivace, playful
lightness, marching
rhythms and dramatic
increases replace each
other in quick
succession; wild
arpeggios lead to the
end. Originally composed
for violin, versions for
viola and cello were
already familiar. For the
50th birthday, Simrock /
Boosey &
Hawkespresents the work
in a revised, revised
edition. A repertoire
enrichment for beginning
instrumentalists are the
first available versions
for alto and tenor
saxophone, which the
composer made himself in
the 1990s.