Alessandro Marcello wrote a concerto in D minor for this instrument with strings and basso continuo, and a sonata by Francis Poulenc for this instrument ends with the Déploration movement.
Alessandro Marcello wrote a concerto in D minor for this instrument with strings and basso continuo, and a sonata by Francis Poulenc for this instrument ends with the Déploration movement. A pair of these instruments takes over parts of Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in Handel's Solomon, and this instrument has a solo after the drums at the beginning of the second movement of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. This is the namesake of a family of instruments that includes the heckelphone and English horn, and it represents the duck in Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.  Name this double reed instrument pitched higher than the bassoon.
Alessandro Marcello wrote a concerto in D minor for this instrument with strings and basso continuo, and a sonata by Francis Poulenc for this instrument ends with the Déploration movement.
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