CLARINET SONATA, OP. 167
COMPOSER: CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

SERIES: HENLE MUSIC FOLIOS
PUBLISHER: HENLE URTEXT EDITION
FORMAT: SOFTCOVER
EDITOR: PETER JOST

DESCRIPTION:
-HENLE WAS ABLE TO CONSULT THE AUTOGRAPH OF THE CLARINET SONATA OP. 167 FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR THEIR URTEXT EDITION. “AT THE MOMENT I AM PUTTING MY LAST OUNCE OF ENERGY INTO GIVING SELDOM CONSIDERED INSTRUMENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD,” SAINT-SAËNS WROTE TO A FRIEND IN APIRL OF THE YEAR HE DIED. A SONATA FOR OBOE, ONE FOR CLARINET AND ONE FOR BASSOON WERE THUS COMPOSED; YET HE WAS NOT TO HEAR THE PREMIERES. AS FAR AS FORM AND INFLECTION ARE CONCERNED, THE THREE WIND SONATAS OP. 166-168 HARK BACK TO THE GALLANT STYLE OF THE 18TH CENTURY AND THUS APPROACH THE NEOCLASSICISM MOVEMENT AROUND 1920. HUMOR, WIT AND FINE IRONY CHARACTERIZE THESE WORKS FOR WIND.