Following the sonatas for oboe and clarinet, the bassoon sonata is the last of the compositions for wind from 1921, the year of Saint-Saëns' death. He did not have a chance to write the sonata for cor anglais he had planned. The humorous, technically not very demanding work hardly shows that the composer was not particularly well acquainted with the instrument. In a letter he admitted to his publisher that he had preferred to check a school to confirm the range of the bassoon at a high passage. However, trial runs with the subsequent dedicatee Léon Letellier went extremely well for both parties. The autograph was made available for the first time for the publication of the Henle Urtext edition.
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I. Eó Mugna
II. Tortan
III. Eó Rossa
IV. Craeb Uisnig
V. Dathi
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Bassoonists applauded the Urtext edition of this work, which is widely beloved for its virtuoso passages and inventive richness. Not only does this edition offer a carefully prepared text; it also features cadenza suggestions by Robert Levin as creative stimuli for the performer.
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A work full of wit and style from a major American composer. Premiere performance was in 1999 with Nancy Goeres, bassoonist, and the composer as pianist. Duration c. 13 minutes.
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For bassoon and orchestra (piano reduction).
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