compositions for the competition – bassoon



1st category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Eugéne Bourdeau - Premier solo

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in D minor RV 481 (2nd and 3rd movement)

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in A minor RV 497
  • Georg Phillip Telemann - Sonata in F minor
  • Benedetto Marcello - Sonata No.2 in E minor
  • Jerome Besozzi - Sonata
  • Gabriel Pierné - Solo de Concert
  • Ludvík Milde - Concertino
  • Eugéne Bourdeau - Second Solo
  • Antonín Rejcha - Sonata

2nd category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Oleg Miroshnikov - Scherzo

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Georg Phillip Telemann - Sonata in E minor

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • Eugéne Bozza - Fantasy
  • Alessandro Longo - Suite
  • Štěpán Lucký - Introduction and Capriccio
  • Antonín Koželuh - Concerto in C major for bassoon (1st and 2nd movement and Cadenza)
  • Paul Hindemith - Sonata for bassoon and piano
  • Ludvík Milde - Concerto No.2 in F minor
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in B flat major for bassoon and piano KV 292
  • Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in E minor RV 484

3rd category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Malcolm Arnold - Fantasy for bassoon

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Henri Duttileux - Sarabande et Cortége

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • Antonio Torriani - Divertimento on Themes from Donizetti´s "Lucia di Lammermoor"
  • Ferdinand David - Concertino
  • Eugéne Bozza - Recit, Sicilianne et Rondo
  • Carl Maria von Weber - Andante and Rondo Ungarese
  • Jan Václav Kalivoda - Introduction, Thema and Variations
  • Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in C major RV 472
  • Balis Dwarionas - Thema and Variations
  • Franz Berwald - Concertpiece

4th category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Gordon Jacob - Partita

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Carl Maria von Weber - Concerto in F major (1st and 2nd movement)

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita BWV 1013
    (Universal Edition)
  • Gioachino Rossini - Concerto for Bassoon (2nd and 3rd movement)
  • Camille Saint-Säens - Sonata for bassoon and piano
  • Gordon Jacob - Concerto for bassoon (1st and 2nd movement, the beginning of the 2nd mov. original version)
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Concerto in F major (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Marcel Bitsch - Concertino
  • Otmar Nussio - Variations on an Arietta by Pergolesi
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto in B flat major (1st and 2nd movement and Cadenza)
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