Humorous Scherzo No. 9 for 4 bassoons (Prokofjew)
Humorous Scherzo op. 12 No. 9 for 4 bassoons (1915) is a chamber music work by the Russian composer Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew , which is his own arrangement of one of the ten pieces for piano two hands.
background
The Humorous Scherzo was originally written for the piano and was part of the Ten Pieces Collection , Op. 12 (No. 9) . In his reworking for four bassoons (1912) a work was created, which the composer prefixed with an epigraph from the comedy Verstand macht Leiden by Alexander Sergejewitsch Gribojedow : “And that croak, strangler, the bassoon ...” . “The combination of four bassoons in the same pitch produced a strange effect that was unfamiliar to the ear.” In 1954, the piece was also included in the score for Prokofiev's ballet The Fairy Tale of the Stone Flower as accompaniment to the dance of the sky and the goat .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Valentin Cholopova: Prokofiev's Chamber Music . In: International Music Festival - Sergei Prokofiev and contemporary music from the Soviet Union. Program book. City of Duisburg, 1990