Morceau de Concert was composed in 1922 as the imposed work for the graduating double bassists at the Paris Conservatoire. Long forgotten, it was dedicated…
Morceau de Concert was composed in 1922 as the imposed work for the graduating double bassists at the Paris Conservatoire. Long forgotten, it was dedicated to Édouard Nanny, the much respected double bass teacher at the Conservatoire, and, typical of a test piece, it has many musical and technical challenges, sudden changes of mood, employing much of the solo range of the instrument.
Aimed at the intermediate-advanced bassist, the one-movement piece is lyrical and dramatic, inventive and atmospheric, with a strongly independent piano accompaniment that adds colour and momentum to a work that is worthy of rediscovery in the 21st-century.
2022 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Édouard Nanny and a perfect time to explore the, Repertoire commissioned by the Paris Conservatoire.
