All text in red are clickable links Go to Composer Index Chronology of Posts (19 total) 1. Woodwind Quintets in the Roaring Twenties – Intro 2. Woodwind Quintets of 1920 (with Prelude) 3. 1921 – Roaring 20s Woodwind Quintets 4. 1922 – Roaring 20s Woodwind Quintets 5. Towards a […]
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100 Years of Romantic Quintets, 1820-1919 Part II, M-Z (Mangold to Zöller Continuing from our previous page. Composer links go to their listing in our main woodwind quintet list. Mangold, Wilhelm (1796-1875) Quintett D-Dur (D Major), Nr. 2 Published in Mainz by B. Schott’s Sohne. In addition to this
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Woodwind Quintets from 1820 to 1919 The Problem So, you’re a musician who has become familiar with the different historical periods, including nineteenth century music. Wouldn’t it be nice, as a woodwind quintet player, to tap into that Romantic tradition and see what is available and worthwhile? But after
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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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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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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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