About the Music

This excellent transcription of Franz Danzi's Concerto Op.47 for clarinet, bass clarinet and piano is a wonderful addition to the repertoire. Originally for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra, the work is a lovely example of late classical/early romantic style. The bass clarinet balances the clarinet even more effectively than the original bassoon. The three-movement work has a duration of about 15 minutes. Listen to the piece in its original instrumentation:

Franz Ignaz Danzi (1763-1826) was a German composer, cellist and conductor. He was the son of the Italian cellist Innocenzo Danzi. Stylistically his work marked the transition from Viennese Classicism to early Romanticism. He was the same age as Beethoven and appreciated the music of W. A. Mozart and Carl Maria von Weber. He lived in a stimulating cultural climate being the son of a singer, his brothers were a composer and a singer. As a young man he also met W. A. Mozart. He worked in various cities of Germany such as Mannheim, Munich and Stuttgart. He studied with Abbot Vogler and entered court circles in the orchestra as a cellist. In 1780, at the age of just seventeen, in Mannheim he began to publish his chamber compositions for wind instruments, which are the best works of his production for their ability to enhance the timbre and characteristics of each individual instrument. Particularly well known are the quintets for wind instruments. In Munich in 1798 he was deputy director Kapellmeister of the court and then later to Frederick I in Stuttgart. The last period of his musical activity operated in Karlsruhe, continuing to be interested in the music of Carl Maria von Weber.

Score: 40 pages, spiral bound; parts: 8-10 pages each, booklet. Extended range instrument NOT required for bass clarinet part.

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About the Arranger

Luigi Rago (1987) is a composer with irregular studies trained at the Salerno State Conservatory of Music “G. Martucci” where after the four-year basic study in composition he obtained the lower completion of composition for the ten-year diploma of the old system. He has always been interested in classical music as well as music applied to images, in commercial as well as academic, in folk music from the Cilento area as well as in the Sacred. DEGREE (three-year academic diploma of 1st level in traditional composition) Conservatory of Salerno (2019). In 2014 one of his compositions for solo flute was awarded at the XIV national composition competition organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Community of Naples (audience award – Franco Caracciolo). He published a reconstruction for violin and orchestra of Bach’s concerto in D minor (Photocity Ed.); a transcription for four transverse flutes of a string quartet by Angelo Maria Benincori in collaboration with Maestro Mauro Scappini (ED. EUFONIA BRESCIA). In 2016 he won the audience prize at the composition competition organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Community of Naples with the composition “Capriccio” for solo violin. - He published abroad with Alea Publishing (USA) [2020]. - Second academic title: (two-year II level course) in instrumentation for wind orchestra with 109/110 at the Conservatory of Salerno (2024). He published a concert for clarinet and band with MULPH publisher.