Early Twentieth Century Reed Trios As we mentioned at the end of our previous article, there was a break of almost 25 years between the time of the compositions of reed trios by Huguenin and Flegier and the next known compositions for oboe, clarinet and bassoon. Gabriel Allier’s Scène […]
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Part I: The Nineteenth Century Trio d’Anches Introduction & Prelude The Trio d’Anches de Paris was formed in 1927 by bassoonist Fernand Oubradous (1903-1986); oboist Myrtil Morel (1889-1979); and clarinetist Pierre Lefebvre (1898-1983). The conventional story about the Trio d’Anches de Paris is that it was one of the
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Ibert and the Impact of Three Tiny Theater Pieces If you are following this series chronologically, you know there were a good number of French composers of woodwind quintets through the 1920s and 1930. They include: Henri Maréchal, Raymond Charpentier, Marcel Labey, Joseph-Guy Ropartz, Henri Tomasi, and Yvonne Desportes.
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1926 News Highlights In our original 2016 series of seven Roaring 20s composers, this was the year that Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez wrote his Suite in F Major, Op. 37. We have a new, separate article on this work and the composer. In addition to Fernandez’s quintet, we have 1926
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1927 news Highlights Composers writing woodwind quintets in 1927 include Kurt Beythien, Giorgio Nataletti, Knudåge Riisager, and Charles Stainer. Kurt Beythien Quintett in F Major, Op. 7 (1925-1927) Although this work was printed privately in 1930, its first commercial printing was not until 2015 by Robert Ostermeyer Musikedition, in
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Title image is of American Composers (L to R): Virgil Thomson, Walter Piston, Herbert Elwell and Aaron Copland at Nadia Boulanger’s Paris home in 1925. 1925 News Highlights In 1926, we have woodwind quintets written by Hermann Ambrosius, Max Butting, Jaroslav Kvapil, Kurt von Schwake, and Henri Tomasi. Hermann
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