Bassoon and Piano
(Bassoon)
SKU:
HL.14021553
Composed
by Herbert Howells. Music
Sales America. Exam
Material. Book
[Softcover]. Music Sales
#NOV120563. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14021553).
ISBN
9780853604754. UPC:
884088956059.
9.0x12.0x0.077
inches.
Herb
ert Howells
(1892-1983) was an
English composer and
teacher, who is perhaps
best known for his choral
music in the Anglican
tradition, most famously
his voluminous settings
of the evening
canticles.
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Minuet
was composed in 1945 for
solo Bassoon with Piano
accompaniment. It was
written for the birthday
of Hugh Crosthwaite, an
English academic and
amateur bassoonist who
was studying at that time
at Cambridge, where
Howells was working as an
acting Organist for the
duration of the war. It
is subtitled
Grace
for a Fresh Egg;
i.e., a thanksgiving for
what was a rarity in
wartime Britain.