Music Resource Item Type Metadata
Composer
Krivitsky, David I.
Gender
Male
Work
Two Concert Pieces. Moscow: Sovetsky.
Improvisation
Toccata
Improvisation
Toccata
Duration
6 minutes
Description
This composition is contained in a collection of Works by Soviet Composers for Solo Bassoon, Installment I, compiled by Valery Popov. It is atonal, and was composed in 1982, and dedicated to V. S. Bozorau. The first piece is essentially a set of improvised sounding variations on a theme, and the second is a self-accompanied melody of nearly continuous 16th-notes. Extended techniques, in the form of flutter-tonguing, timbre changes, quarter-tone pitch-bending, and tremolos, are required. A triple-tongue technique would be helpful in the flashy and challenging second piece, which ends on D5.
Reference
The Double Reed 31/2, p. 78.
Date Range of Work
1982