Musica Rara
for | Clarinet, piano |
Musical Editions | Piano score, solo part |
Item no. | 205442 |
Author / Composer | Heinrich Joseph Baermann |
Editor | John Paul Newhill |
Scope | 20 pages; 23 × 30.5 cm |
Release year | 2002 |
Publisher / Producer | Breitkopf & Härtel |
Producer No. | MR 2064 |
ISMN | 9790004486221 |
The present Introduction and Polonaise op. 25 by Heinrich Joseph Baermann (1784-1847) was published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1822. It appears to have been extraordinarily popular, as is confirmed by three further contemporary prints aside from the Breitkopf edition. Formally interesting is Baermanns insertion of a short Adagio as a kind of rest after the Introduction (in a rapid tempo) and before the start of the main section, the Polonaise (Polacca). This edition offers a revised musical text which corrects inconsistencies in the sources and also subjects the piano part to a critical examination.