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; bass clarinet part: 8 pages. An extended-range instrument is NOT required.

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About the Arranger

Luigi Rago is a composer and a pianist born in 1987 in Italy where he lives and works. In 2019 he achieved a degree in traditional composition at the State conservatory of Salerno "G. Martucci." He has been always interested in music since he was a child when he began to study piano, violin and viola. He won composition contests in Italy connected with the cultural activities of the Italian Lutheran Evangelic Church in Naples in 2014 and again in 2016 composing for solo flute and for solo violin. He published several works in Italy for Photocity editions, with Eufonia Edizioni of Brescia, with GDE editions (Rome), with Da Vinci Classics (Osaka – Japan). He would like to deepen didactic of the music and to achieve in future a graduation in it. Luigi believes that music can be a form of hope for the humankind even if contemporary music with his "bright tones" does not confirm this theory.