An easy virtuoso work published here for the first time and now much performed. Recorded Slatford/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields (EMI). AMEB (Australian Syllabus) 2004. Orchestral material on hire from Yorke Edition (not Spartan).Programme Note:As a young professional player in the 1960s my work as a double bassist with chamber ensembles and small orchestras took me all over the world. This presented an unparalleled opportunity to scour libraries and archives wherever I went. Long before the advent of the photocopier and e-mail research was far more challenging than it is today. Eastern Europe was particularly difficult to access with manycollections kept under lock and key for all but a few hours a week. One quickly found colleagues who were keen to share information gleaned in passing even though they had no specific interest in one's own particular specialism (it is so often the peripheral topics that fascinate as much as the main subject under investigation and one can quickly be side-tracked into political and social issues that have only slender bearing on the job in hand!).In the early 1970s James Brown the then sub-principal oboist of the English Chamber Orchestra with whom I was working at the time stumbled across a small collection of double bass manuscripts at the Royal Danish State Library in Copenhagen. They were by Franz Anton Leopold Keÿper (b. c.1756 d. Copenhagen 7 June 1815) a double bassist of Dutch origin who worked as principal of the Royal Chapel Orchestra in Copenhagen. Keÿper's son was the bassoonist Franz Jacob August Keÿper (1792-1859). The collection included a number of concertos some chamber music and various naïve fragments. Although hardly the work of a Mozart or Haydn the style is characteristic of the period. For an instrument such as the double bass whose 18th century solo repertoire is largely written for tunings that are no longer in everyday use Keÿper's music is easily approachable in its

The complete resource for the Grade 3 double bassist. Par . La série Grade By Grade (De degré par degré) tire sa substance du catalogue classique, contemporain et pédagogique riche et varié de Boosey

Piano Accompaniment-The Carl Fischer catalog a treasure trove of solos for all major band and orchestra instruments now has a series devoted to preserving these gems many of which are on state required music lists. The new string bass book contains many celebrated solos including Merle Caballero Wagner Die Meistersinger (Prelude) Simandl Larghetto (Ã?tude No. 23) Merle Mummers (Danse Grotesque) Martin Pompola and much more 24 titles in all. This is a must-have collection for all students of the string bass. This edition contains all the Piano accompaniments for the instrumental books in the series.

Ce concerto est devenu en raison de sa richesse d'invention de la qualité de sa technique d'écriture ainsi que de ses exigences sur les plans technique et musical l?une des oeuvres fréquemment requises pour les concours. L'édition répond tous les désirs : la partie de contrebasse est donnée pour l'instrument avec accord de solo et d'orchestre avec réduction pour piano en Ré majeur et en Ut majeur. En outre une deuxième partie en «notation par doigtés» spécialement conçue en fonction de l'«accord viennois» en usage l'époque de Hoffmeister permet l'instrumentiste de jouer directement sans réapprentissage fastidieux selon l'accord historique.?