Stockhausen's many pieces for this instrument include Freia, In Freundschaft, and Evas Spiegel.
Stockhausen's many pieces for this instrument include Freia, In Freundschaft, and Evas Spiegel. In Richard Strauss's Elektra, this instrument repeatedly echoes the motif associated with the desecration of the heroine's hair. Two oboes are answered by a chord including three of these instruments at the opening of Mozart's Masonic Funeral Music. It joins the piano and clarinet in Felix Mendelssohn's Opus 113 and 114 for the Baermann brothers; and Carl Stamitz wrote a notable concerto for it in G major. This instrument names the pseudonym under which George Bernard (*) Shaw wrote music criticism. Two bassoons play together with two of these over walking strings at the very opening of Mozart's Requiem. This was the lowest instrument commonly played by virtuoso Anton Stadler. Like the English horn, this woodwind is typically pitched in F. For 10 points, identify this single-reed woodwind instrument, which is sometimes replaced in modern performance by the similarly shaped bass clarinet.
Stockhausen's many pieces for this instrument include Freia, In Freundschaft, and Evas Spiegel.
basset horn [or corno di bassetto; grudgingly prompt on clarinet; do NOT prompt on or accept "basset clarinet" or "bass clarinet"]