Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

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Alexander F. Goedicke

Nocturne op. 28 n. 1

 

The clarinet appears relatively late in the history of European music, and it became a permanent member of the orchestra only towards the end of the eighteenth century. (It is well known that Mozart used it in the second version of his Symphony No. 40 but not in Nos. 39 or 41.). In the twentieth century, however, the instrument got its “revenge” and became one of the protagonists of contemporary music, thanks to its special capacity for expressive flexibility. A fine example is the Nocturne for clarinet and piano, Op. 28, No. 1, by Alexander Goedicke a Russian composer and a cousin of Nicolai Medtner. Goedicke was an organist and pianist who studied composition with Arensky at the Moscow Conservatory, where, beginning in 1909, he taught piano, organ and chamber music. Although he also wrote four works for the theatre, Goedicke was especially active as a composer of music for wind instruments.

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