Mladi (Die Jugend)
Wind Sextet
by Leos Janacek
Woodwind Quintet - Sheet Music

Flute (anche fluteauto piccolo), oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, clarinet-B (Flute (anche Flauto piccolo), Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Bass clarinet)

SKU: BA.BA09528

Wind Sextet. Composed by Leos Janacek. Edited by Jan Doležal and Leoš Faltus. This edition: urtext edition. In a folder. Barenreiter Urtext. Set of parts. 8/8/8/7/8 pages. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA09528. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA09528).

ISBN 9790260104778. 31 x 24.5 cm inches.

Leos Janácek, almost seventy years old, characterised the wind sextet he had just finished as “a kind of memory of youth” in a letter to Kamila Stösslová. The suite “Youth” was written in the summer of 1924, prompted by the composer’s need to take stock on the occasion of his 70 th birthday. Janácek also heard the Parisian ensemble “Socit moderne des instruments à vent” several times in Salzburg and Brno. He expanded the classic quintet scoring by the addition of a bass clarinet.

Janácek referred to an earlier part of his life in this work not only by quoting a theme from “March of the Blue Boys”, but particularly through his general freshness of expression, astute humour and use of form which adhered to the classical style.

The piece was enthusiastically received by both critics and the public and appeared in print as early as 1925 issued by the Prague publisher Hudební matice.

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