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Repertoire for a Swedish bassoon virtuoso: Approaching early nineteenth-century works composed for Frans Preumayr with an original Grenser & Wiesner bassoon (last edited: 2023)

Donna Agrell
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Frans Preumayr's nineteenth century virtuosic bassoon repertoire. An approach with a fine Grenser & Wiesner bassoon from Dresden: Issues of material and technique. What techniques and tools must be developed by period bassoonists in order to successfully approach the performance of Frans Preumayr's virtuosic repertoire? "A Very Fine Eleven-Keyed Stained Maple Bassoon by H. Grenser & Wiesner, Dresden, circa 1825" - as titled in an entry in a London auction catalogue - is one of the few surviving examples of a complete period bassoon with all its parts, offering valuable information for both period instrument builders and players today. This research project of Donna Agrell is based specifically on the unique opportunity that the Grenser & Wiesner instrument presents us with: an investigation of early nineteenth century bassoon works written for the Swedish virtuoso Frans Preumayr by composers such as Franz Berwald and Bernhard Henrik Crusell. Solutions for technical problems found in this repertoire are sought and described, and include a discussion of reed styles and fingering systems for the period bassoonist.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsromantic music, bassoon, Frans Preumayr, Édouard Du Puy, Bernard Crusell, Eduard Brendler
date08/12/2015
last modified02/02/2023
statusin progress
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copyrightDonna Agrell
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1788408/1788409
connected toAcademy of Creative and Performing Arts
external linkhttps://hdl.handle.net/1887/36960


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