Camille Saint-Saëns
Clarinet Sonata Op. 167
Camille Saint-Saëns
Clarinet Sonata Op. 167
- Instrumentation Clarinet and Piano
- Composer Camille Saint-Saëns
- Editor Klaus Schilde
- Editor Peter Jost
- Edition Piano Score and Part(s) (Urtext)
- Publisher G. Henle Verlag
- Order no. HN965
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Description:
For our Urtext edition of the Clarinet Sonata op. 167 we were able to consult the autograph for the first time. 'At the moment I am putting my last ounce of energy into giving seldom considered instruments an opportunity to be heard', Saint-Saëns wrote to a friend in April of the year he died. A sonata for oboe, one for clarinet and one for bassoon were thus composed; yet he was not to hear the premieres. As far as form and infl ection are concerned, the three wind sonatas op. 166 -168 hark back to the gallant style of the 18th century and thus approach the neoclassicism movement around 1920. Humour, wit and fine irony characterise these works for wind.?