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Debussy, Claude: Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra

pocket score

Setting: Saxophone (alto)
Length: 35 pages
Weight: 0.09 kg
Published: 2024
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9989
Other reference: HN 9989
ISMN: 9790201899893
Debussy’s Rhapsody was commissioned by the wealthy amateur Elise Hall, who paid the composer a considerable sum in advance. Yet work on it was not easy- following his death all that existed was a finished orchestral sketch, a short score. Debussy’s friend Jean Roger-Ducasse undertook versions for piano and orchestra based on the sole authentic source. Ever since its first performance in Paris in 1919, both of these versions of the work have formed part of the saxophone’s core repertoire. Our stu
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