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Saint-Saëns, Camille: Bassoon Sonata op. 168

Op. 167
Setting: Bassoon and Piano
Period: Romantic
Length: 32 pages
Weight: 0.143 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN0966
Other reference: HN 966
ISMN: 9790201809663
Following the sonatas for oboe and clarinet, the bassoon sonata is the last of the compositions for wind from 1921, the year of Saint-SaŰns' 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 Leon Letellier went extremely well for both parties. The autograph was made available for the first time for the publication of our Urtext edition.?
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