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Considered by many to be the most difficult of all the musical instruments, the oboe is often called the "ill wind that no one blows good." Oboist Thomas Gallant is one of the world's few virtuoso solo and chamber music performers on this instrument and he has been praised by The New Yorker magazine as "a player who unites technical mastery with intentness, charm and wit."
A slower middle section leads to a climax in the piano. [2] The final Déploration, marked Très calme (very calm), has a theme like a chorale, introduced in the piano. The entrance of the oboe is marked monotone, and the essentially sad music shifts in tonality towards the close. [2]
An oboe–bassoon–piano trio is a chamber music ensemble made up of one oboe, one bassoon, and one piano, or the name of a piece written for such a group.. The ensemble is similar to the classical piano trio in which the violin is replaced by the oboe and the cello is replaced by the bassoon.
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Baroque oboe, Stanesby copy. The Oboe sonata in C minor (HWV 366) was composed (c. 1711–1712) by George Frideric Handel for oboe and basso continuo. The work is also referred to as Opus 1 No. 8, and was first published in 1732 by Walsh. Other catalogues of Handel's music have referred to the work as HG xxvii, 29; and HHA iv/18,32. [1]
Carl Nielsen's Fantasy Pieces for Oboe and Piano (Fantasistykker for obo og klavier), Opus 2, were composed shortly after the composer had taken up the post of second violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra in 1889. The two pieces which make up the opus were first performed at the Royal Orchestra Soirée in Copenhagen on 16 March 1891.
David Reichenberg (13 July 1950 – 10 June 1987) was an American oboist and a highly respected specialist on the baroque oboe. He was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa and learnt the flute, violin, and piano as a child. He began his oboe studies with Dr. Myron E. Russell of the University of Northern Iowa.
Camille Saint-Saëns's Oboe Sonata in D major, Op. 166 was composed in 1921, the year of the composer's death. This sonata is the first of the three sonatas that Saint-Saëns composed for wind instruments , the other two being the Clarinet Sonata (Op. 167) and the Bassoon Sonata (Op. 168), written the same year.