YOUTH POUR FLUTE (FLUTE PICCOLO), HAUTBOIS, CLARINETTE EN SIB, COR, BASSON, CLARINETTE BASSE
AUTEUR: LEOS JANACEK 1854-1928
STYLE: Classique
NIVEAU: 3me cycle
COMMENTAIRE: Toutes les parties sont fournies.
Editeurs: Leoš Faltus - Jan Dole?al
Leos Janácek, almost seventy years old, characterised the wind sextet he had just finished as “a kind of memory of youth” in a letter to Kamila Stösslová. The suite “Youth” was written in the summer of 1924, prompted by the composer’s need to take stock on the occasion of his 70 th birthday. Janácek also heard the Parisian ensemble “Société moderne des instruments à vent” several times in Salzburg and Brno. He expanded the classic quintet scoring by the addition of a bass clarinet.
Janácek referred to an earlier part of his life in this work not only by quoting a theme from “March of the Blue Boys”, but particularly through his general freshness of expression, astute humour and use of form which adhered to the classical style.
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