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Andante et Scherzo
General Info
Year: 1938
Duration: c. 6:55
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alphonse Leduc
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $32.75
Movements
1. Andante – 3:50
2. Scherzo: Assez vif – 3:05
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Andante and Scherzo is a very enjoyable romantic quartet divided in two parts. It starts with a slow section, a tenor sax solo followed by the chorus, before jumping into an engaging quick staccato. A highly recommended piece of saxophone quartet literature.
- Program Note from publisher
The about seven-minute Andante et Scherzo for saxophone quartet was composed in 1938 and was written for Marcel Mule’s quartet. The music clearly follows the Impressionist spirit of French music at the turn of the century. The Andante flows in gently rocking colours, the Scherzo swirls away in lively fashion; it is carefree performance music in the best sense of the word – entirely in the spirit of those representatives of Bozza’s own generation in France (from Poulenc to Françaix) who continued to avail themselves particularly consistently of tonal means.
- Program Note from liner notes for Bank Austria CD Mobilis Saxophone Quartet
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Kenari Quartet – 2016
- Audio CD: Mobilis Saxophone Quartet - 2012
State Ratings
- Texas: Saxophone Quartet Class I
Performances
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- University of Florida (Gainesville) Wind Symphony (David Waybright, conductor) – 12 February 2019
- Milonga Saxophone Quartet (Amsterdam) – 2017
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Actanphonie (1970)
- Allegro et Finale (1953)
- Andante et Scherzo (1938)
- Ceux qui pieusement sont morts
- Children's Overture (1964)
- Concert pour violon, alto et violoncelle (1943)
- Concertino for Alto Saxophone
- Concertino for Piano and Winds
- En Forêt (adapt. Pegram) (1941/1985)
- Jour d'été à la montagne (1954)
- Nuages (1946)
- Octanphonie (1972)
- Ouverture pour une Cérémonie (1963)
- Ouverture Rythmique (rev. Etchegoncelay) (1963/2018)
- Scherzo (1944)
- Sonatine (1951)
- Symphonie da camera (1960)
- Trois pièces pour quatre flûtes en ut (1979)
- Trois pièces pour une musique de nuit (1954)
Resources
None discovered thus far.