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Divertimento (Blacher)
This work bears the designation Opus 7.
General Info
Year: 1936
Duration: c. 5:20
Publisher: Bote & Bock
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $25.00 | Score Only (print) - $4.00
Movements
1. Intrada - c. 2:20
2. March - c. 3:00
Instrumentation
Condensed Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
B-flat Flugelhorn I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
B-flat Tenorhorn I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba I-II
Timpani
Percussion, one player, including:
- Crash Cymbals
- Snare Drum
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Before the war, Blacher was still involved in the professional life and with German military music. The Divertimento was premiered in Berlin on 24 February 1937. The conductor was Felix Husadel, a colleague of Blacher at the Hochschule fur Musik. The band was probably from the Luftwaffenmusikkorps, for at the time Husadel was music inspector for the German Air Force, which was one of very few groups to employ saxophones, instruments generally regarded by the Third Reich as symbols of Western decadence.
The lntrada is a simple rondo, looking back to the tower-music of seventeenth-century middle Europe; a canonic theme is stated on a solo trumpet and imitated by the rest of the orchestra, with a short contrasting phrase marked espressivo. The March is in typical ternary form, a swaggering, jaunty theme with a more lyrical trio section.
- Program Note by Tim Reynish for the liner notes of the 2000 Chandos CD German Wind Band Classics
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra (Timothy Reynish, conductor)
- Audio CD: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra - 2004
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls) Wind Ensemble (Danny Galyen, conductor) - 15 November 2022
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Divertimento (1936)
- Divertimento for Four Woodwinds (1951)
- Divertimento for Trumpet, Trombone, and Piano (1946)
Resources
- Blacher, B. (1936). Divertimento for Wind Orchestra (1936) op. 7. [score]. Bote & Back: Berlin.