Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and Music criticism, critic in the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Best known for List of operas by Carl Maria von Weber, h ...
wrote his Concertino for Clarinet in
E-flat major
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The E-fla ...
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Op. 26, J. 109, for clarinettist
Heinrich Bärmann in 1811. Weber wrote the work in three days between March 29 and April 3. Bärmann learned the work over the next three days and the command performance, for which
King Maximilian I of Bavaria purchased 50 tickets, took place on the evening of April 5.
Structure
The
concertino unfolds in one
movement. The form is
theme
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and
variations
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. The piece begins with a slow introduction in
C minor
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The C natural minor scale is:
Cha ...
. The E-flat major theme is sixteen
bars in length. The next section is marked . In some editions, what follows is "Variation I", though it could be argued that the previous section is actually the first variation. In any event, the so-called Variation I presents variations of the theme in
triplets
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. Variation II is marked and presents
sixteenth note
Figure 1. A 16th note with stem facing up, a 16th note with stem facing down, and a 16th rest.
Figure 2. Four 16th notes beamed together.
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s. The following variation is slow and in the
parallel minor. The next variation is in 6/8 time. The piece concludes with a section marked .
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Clarinet concertino
1811 compositions
Weber clarinet
Weber concertino
Compositions in E-flat major