Klarinet Archive - Posting 000463.txt from 1996/03

From: Jacqueline G Eastwood <eastwooj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Don't write for "Trio d'Anches"
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:41:17 -0500

Actually, it seems more likely that French composers who late in life
decide to write sonatas for each of oboe, clarinet and bassoon are
sealing their fates even more surely than just those who write for
clarinet. Saint-Saens wrote sonatas op. 166 (oboe), 167 (clarinet) and
168 (bassoon). Poulenc wrote oboe and clarinet, but croaked before he
got to the bassoon piece he had intended. Go figure.

Jacqueline Eastwood
University of Arizona/Arizona Opera Orchestra
eastwooj@-----.edu