About the Music

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. He wrote the majority of his chamber works later in life. His woodwind sonatas, in particular, are among his last works. This Sonata Op.168, originally for bassoon and piano, is tremendous in this new arrangement for bass clarinet and piano by Italian composer Luigi Rago. The three-movement work, dating from 1921, has been described as "a model of transparency, vitality and lightness, containing humorous touches but also moments of peaceful contemplation."

Score: 22 pages, spiral bound; bass clarinet part: 8 pages, booklet format. An extended-range instrument is NOT required.

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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.