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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End of a Historic Decade 1930 News Highlights 1930 Without a doubt, the most famous woodwind quintet of 1930 was that of Jacques Ibert, his Trois Pièces Brèves. So, it might surprise many to find out it was recycled from incidental music Ibert had just completed. I’ve written an
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1929’s Unique Woodwind Quintets 1929 News Highlights In 1929 we have woodwind quintets written by Henk Badings, Pavel Haas, Szymon Laks, Willem Pijper, Miroslav Ponc, and Thomas Wood. Henk Badings Henk Bading’s Wind Quintet No. 1 was written in 1929 and was published in Amsterdam by Stichting Donemus. It’s
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Brazilian Music for Parisians Villa-Lobos as a Young Man Heitor Villa-Lobos was born March 5, 1887 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and died there on November 17, 1959. In addition to being Brazil’s most famous composer (writing over 2000 works), he was also active as an educator and conductor.
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A Q&A about the woodwind quintet and the research on Brandt’s Woodwind Site.
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How to Use Brandt’s Woodwind Quintet Site (including the non-quintets) What is this Site About? This website is about wind chamber music. Twenty-five years ago, it was a text-only list of woodwind quintets. When it first went online it was mainly about woodwind quintets, but also included a list
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