The very romantic serenade for wind instruments in one movement op. 7 was composed by a then 18-year-old Richard Strauss. This work, which is still extremely popular with wind instrumentalists today, recalls, both in its composition and in its structure, Mozart's ?Gran Partita?, which Strauss certainly took as an example. The Serenade was not performed in his Bavarian homeland, but premiered in Dresden in 1882 under the direction of Franz Wüllner, then highly regarded conductor who had also performed Rheingold (The Rhine Gold) and the Walküre (The Valkyrie) of Richard Wagner on the baptismal font, then, later, had created the symphonic poems of Strauss Till Eulenspiegel (Till l'Espiègle) and Don Quixote (Don Quixote). A great honor therefore for the young Bavarian! The publisher Norbert Gertsch presents here this small masterpiece - score and separate parts -, for the first time as Urtext, for which, in addition to the first edition, the autograph manuscript was also the subject of a difficult examination.
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