A Clarinet Almanac

John Macfarlane

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781398472945
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

More than 60 years' experience in playing the clarinet has led to a very personal and idiosyncratic review of the repertoire. From the point of view of being both a player and a programmer the author has endeavoured to find works for unusual combinations involving the clarinet. This book includes a few orchestral solos and several vocal works (both chamber and operatic), but it is focussed on chamber music and includes gems from the repertoire for the standard wind quintet. The clarinet features as a solo instrument, in duos with a surprisingly large variety of instruments and in mixed trios, quartets and so on to larger ensembles. During the course of one year the reader will be exposed to 366 works, probably some unfamiliar, by 245 different composers. The author hopes it will whet the appetites of students, teachers and concert organizers alike.

Table of contents

• A Clarinet Almanac
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgement
• Background
• January
• Frederic Curzon (1899–1973)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
• Franz Krommer (1759–1831)
• Heinrich Sutermeister (1910–1995)
• Joseph-Guy Ropartz (1864–1955)
• Max Bruch (1838–1920)
• York Bowen (1884–1961)
• Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
• Paul Reade (1943–1997)
• Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
• Kaspar Kummer (1795–1870)
• Herbert Howells (1892–1989)
• Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838)
• Giuseppe Maria Cambini (?1746–?1825)
• Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
• George Gershwin (1891–1937)
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
• Dominick Argento (1927–2019)
• William Yeats Hurlstone (1876–1906)
• Walter Piston (1894–1976)
• Franz Schmidt (1874–1939)
• Andreas Spaeth (1792–1876)
• Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
• Carl Stamitz (1745–1801)
• Witold Lutoslawski (1913–1994)
• Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
• Heinrich Baermann (1784–1847)
• Michael Head (1900–1976)
• John Ireland (1879–1962)
• Philip Browne (1898–1961)
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
• February
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
• Acker Bilk (1929–2014)
• Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838)
• Alban Berg (1885–1935)
• Ludwig Thuille (1861–1907)
• Louis Cahuzac (1880–1960)
• Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
• Wilhelm Berger (1863–1911)
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
• Nino Rota (1911–1979)
• Gordon Jacob (1895–1984)
• Heinrich Baermann (1784–1847)
• Carl Nielsen (1865–1931)
• Robert Fuchs (1847–1927)
• Franz (Frantisek) Xaver Pokorny (1729–1794)
• Benjamin Frankel (1906–1973)
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
• Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
• Ruth Gipps (1921–1999)
• Gordon Lewin (1921–2008)
• Susan Spain-Dunk (1880–1962)
• Gordon Jacob (1895–1984)
• Zbyněk Matějů (1958–)
• Howard Ferguson (1908–1999)
• Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919–1996)
• Frank Bridge (1879–1941)
• Scott Joplin (1868–1917)
• Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868)
• March
• Alfred Pratt (1873–1959)
• Chris Barber (1930–2021)
• Lucien-Emmanuel Quet (1887–1973)
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
• Max Bruch (1838–1920)
• Rudolf Karel (1880–1945)
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
• Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)
• Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889)
• Villem Kapp (1913–1964)
• Herbert Howells (1892–1989)
• Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1788–1831)
• Robert Clérisse (1899–1973)
• Samuel Coleridge Taylor (1875–1912)
• Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
• Gordon Jacob (1895–1984)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
• Dirk Brossé (1960–)
• Jean Xavier Lefèvre (1763–1829)
• Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
• Jules Massenet (1842–1912)
• Andrew Byrne (?)
• Stephan Krehl (1864–1924)
• Harald Genzmer (1909–2007)
• Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
• Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831)
• François-René Gebauer (1773–1845)
• Sigismund Neukomm (1778–1858)
• Mátyás Seiber (1905–1960)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• Andreas Spaeth (1792–1876)
• April
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
• Max Reger (1873–1916)
• Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012)
• John Veale (1922–2006)
• Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
• Felix Draeseke (1835–1913)
• Bruce Adolphe (1955–)
• Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812)
• Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
• Franz Anton Dimler (1753–1819)
• Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989)
• Niels Gade (1817–1890)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• John Dankworth (1927–2010)
• Ernst Krenek (1900–1991)
• Arthur Bliss (1891–1975)
• Claude Arrieu (1903–1990)
• Arnold Cooke (1906–2005)
• Oscar Navarro (1981–)
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
• Charles Koechlin (1867–1950)
• Hans Gál (1890–1987)
• Louise Farrenc (1804–1875)
• Wilfred Josephs (1927–1997)
• Gabriel Pierné (1863–1937)
• Johann Stamitz (1717–1757)
• Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
• May
• Alan Rawsthorne (1905–1971)
• Carl Frühling (1868–1937)
• Mátyás Seiber (1905–1960)
• Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
• Margot Wright (1911–2000)
• François-René Gebauer (1773–1845)
• Robin Milford (1903–1959)
• Franz Danzi (1763–1826)
• Balázs Szunyogh (1954–1999)
• Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813)
• Joseph Horovitz (1926–1922)
• Francesco Antonio Rosetti (c.1750–1792)
• Sidney Bechet (1897–1959)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
• Guillaume Connesson (1970–)
• Erzsébet Szőnyi (1924–2019)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
• Arthur Somervell (1863–1937)
• John McCabe (1939–2015)
• André Jolivet (1905–1974)
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
• Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
• Thomas Dunhill (1877–1946)
• Kaspar Kummer (1795–1870)
• Joseph Horovitz (1926–2022)
• Pierre-Max Dubois (1930–1995)
• György Ligeti (1923–2006)
• Luigi Bassi (1833–1871)
• Morton Gould (1913–1996)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• June
• Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)
• Norbert Burgmüller (1810–1836)
• Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006)
• Paquito D’Rivera (1948–)
• Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
• Aram Khachaturian (1904–1978)
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
• Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
• Florent Schmitt (1870–1958)
• Geoffrey Bush (1920–1998)
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
• John Ireland (1879–1962)
• Benny Goodman (1909–1986)
• Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775–1838)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
• Amy Beach (1867–1944)
• Camille Saint-Saens (1835–1921)
• Elaine Hugh-Jones (1927–2021)
• Gordon Jacob (1895–1984)
• Paul Juon (1872–1940)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
• Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
• Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)
• Peter Wishart (1921–1984)
• Iwan Müller (1786–1854)
• Alec Templeton (1909–1963)
• Rudolf Escher (1912–1980)
• Gottfried Herrmann (1808–1878)
• Leopold ‘Leo’ Smit (1900–1943)
• July
• Victor Babin (1908–1972)
• Franz Krommer (1759–1831)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• Alezander Zemlinsky (1871–1942)
• Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958)
• František Domažlický (1913–1997)
• Max Reger (1873–1916)
• Anton Stadler (1753–1812)
• Rudolf Escher (1912–1980)
• John Noble (?–?)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
• Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
• Rezső Kókai (1906–1962)
• Gerald Finzi (1901–1956)
• Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
• Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904)
• Donald F. Tovey (1875–1940)
• Florent Schmitt (1870–1958)
• Tristan Keuris (1946–1996)
• Gustav Jenner (1865–1920)
• Alan Ridout (1934–1996)
• Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012)
• Franz Berwald (1796–1868)
• Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
• Margot Wright (1911–2000)
• André Messager (1853–1929)
• Anton (Antoine) Reicha (1770–1836)
• Ivo Petrić (1931–2018)
• Henri Marteau (1874–1934)
• Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006)
• Paul Arden Taylor (1954–)
• August
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
• Arthur Bliss (1891–1975)
• Douglas Moore (1893–1969)
• Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979)
• József Sári (1935–)
• Hans Gál (1890–1987)
• Don Banks (1923–1980)
• Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)
• Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
• Joseph Rheinberger (1839–1901)
• Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006)
• Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
• Robert Muczynski (1929–2010)
• Traditional: Sammy’s Freilach
• Arnold Cooke (1906–2005)
• François Devienne (1753–1801)
• Hans Gál (1890–1987)
• Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
• Anton Reicha (1770–1836)
• Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
• Jurriaan Hendrik Andriessen (1925–1996)
• Johannes Simon Mayr/Maier/Mayer Alias Giovanni Simone Mayr (1763–1845)
• Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
• Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775–1838)
• Scott Mcallister (1969–)
• Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756–1791)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
• Gordon Lewin (1921–2008)
• Ernst Krenek (1900–1991)
• September
• John Corigliano (1938–)
• Eugène Bozza (1905–1991)
• Günter Habicht (1916–2010)
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
• Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
• Joan Tower (1938–)
• Raymond Dodd (1929–)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
• Max Reger (1873–1916)
• Gerald Finzi (1901–1956)
• William Alwyn (1905–1985)
• Alezander Zemlinsky (1871–1942)
• John Rutter (1945–)
• Carl Nielsen (1865–1931)
• Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
• Christopher Edmunds (1899–1990)
• Isang Yun (1917–1995)
• Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
• Herbert Howells (1892–1989)
• Josef Páleníček (1914–1991)
• Ernst Krenek (1900–1991)
• Rudolf Jettel (1903–1981)
• Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (1766–1839)
• Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
• August Winding (1835–1899)
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
• Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
• Phyllis Tate (1911–1987)
• October
• Andreas Romberg (1767–1821)
• Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775–1838)
• Camille Saint-Saens (1835–1921)
• Geoffrey Bush (1920–1998)
• Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
• Howard Ferguson (1908–1999)
• Ewald Strässer (1867–1933)
• Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)
• Egon Wellesz (1885–1974)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• François Devienne (1759–1801)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
• Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
• Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
• Franz Reizenstein (1911–1968)
• Paul Juon (1872–1940)
• Nicolai Rimksy-Korsakov (1844–1908)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
• Leó Weiner (1885–1960)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
• Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
• Bo Holten (1948–)
• Gordon Jacob (1895–1984)
• Adolf Busch (1891–1952)
• Carl Maria Von Weber (1786–1826)
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
• Nino Rota (1911–1979)
• Gordon Jacob (1895–1984)
• Antoni Szałowski (1907–1973)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• November
• Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020)
• Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
• Isang Yun (1917–1995)
• Jean Rivier (1896–1987)
• Othmar Schoeck (1886–1957)
• Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
• Ernst Hermann Meyer (1905–1988)
• Arnold Bax (1883–1953)
• Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986)
• Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989)
• Max Reger (1873–1916)
• Henri Tomasi (1901–1971)
• Iša Krejčί (1904–1968)
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837)
• Mátyás Seiber (1905–1960)
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
• Carl Maria Von Weber (1786–1826)
• Franz Krommer (1759–1831)
• Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813)
• Sigrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933)
• Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
• Bernhard Heiden (1910–2000)
• Charles Gounod (1818–1893)
• Julian Dawes (1945–)
• Joseph Horovitz (1926–2022)
• Charles Koechlin (1867–1950)
• Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
• December
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
• Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda (1801–1866)
• Georg Friedrich Fuchs (1752–1821)
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
• Osvaldo Golijov (1960–)
• Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006)
• Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889–1960)
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
• Iša Krejčί (1904–1968)
• Arnold Cooke (1906–2005)
• Paul Harris (1955–)
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
• Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812)
• John McCabe (1939–2015)
• Jim Parker (1934–)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
• Arthur Bliss (1891–1975)
• Pierre-Max Dubois (1930–1995)
• Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
• Carl Stamitz (1745–1801)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• Phyllis Tate (1911–1987)
• Carey Blyton (1932–2002)
• Terence Greaves (1933–2009)
• Franz (Wilhelm) Tausch (1762–1817)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
• Eugène Bozza (1905–1991)
• Pierre Sancan (1916–2008)
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
• George Gershwin (1898–1937)
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