Two works featuring this instrument include a Romanze and Humoresque which comprise Carl Nielsen's Opus 2.
Two works featuring this instrument include a Romanze and Humoresque which comprise Carl Nielsen's Opus 2. Those works are his Fantasy Pieces for this instrument and piano. Nineteenth century virtuosos of this instrument included Johann Christian Fischer and Ludwig Lebrun. This instrument plays a notoriously hard solo in the overture to Rossini's La Scala di Seta, and this modern-day descendant of the shawm introduces the plaintive theme of the second movement of Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony. Along with its larger and lower-pitched sibling, it represents one of the shepherds in the third movement of Symphonie Fantastique. Mozart wrote his only concerto for this instrument in C major, and then reworked it into his second flute concerto. FTP, name this double-reed instrument which plays the A to which the orchestra tunes and which represents the duck in Peter and the Wolf.
Two works featuring this instrument include a Romanze and Humoresque which comprise Carl Nielsen's Opus 2.
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