Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
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Sonate pour clarinette et basson Sonata for clarinet and bassoon |
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| Chamber music by Francis Poulenc | |
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, where the piece was premiered in 1923
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| Catalogue | FP 32a |
| Composed | 1922 |
| Performed | 4 January 1923: Paris |
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The Sonate pour clarinette et basson (Sonata for clarinet and bassoon), FP 32a, is a piece of chamber music composed by Francis Poulenc in 1922. Its total execution time is approximately 7 to 8 minutes.
This sonata is the third work of chamber music of the composer after the sonata for two clarinets and the sonata for piano, 4 hands (FP 8). It was written between August and October 1922 at the same time as the Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone (FP 33). It was premiered by the clarinettist Louis Cahuzac at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris on 4 January 1923 at a Satie-Poulenc concert organized by Jean Wiener.
From its creation, critics were good, especially those of Charles Koechlin that Poulenc reports in one of his letters. He specifies that his master very much liked his "minions" (?), which he found very well written. This is the key". As for the biographer Henri Hell, he found that the two pieces written the same year were "acid and tender, well written for wind instruments, they had all the quality of the sonata for two clarinets, contemporary of the Trois mouvements perpétuels".
This sonata is close in clarity and precision to that for two clarinets composed four years earlier.
Like most of the composer's chamber music pieces, with the exception of the Cello Sonata, the sonata for clarinet and bassoon has three short movements:
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