Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Saxophone Symposium
- Nasa Executive Committee
- Notice to Contributors
- Financial Reports
- Book part
- List of Featured Concerto Performers at North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conferences, 1994–2020
- Asenath Mann: Boston's Gilded-Age Saxophonist
- Zechariah Goh and the Development of Classical Saxophone in Singapore
- Mrs. B. L. Hackenberger: Bessie Mecklem as Progressive-Era Clubwoman
- Elise Hall in Santa Barbara (1889–1898): The Amateur Musical Club and Philharmonic Society
- “Another American Voice” William Grant Still and the Saxophone
- The Manuscript to Jacques Ibert's Concertino da Camera: What We Can Learn from It
- Steven Bryant: In this Broad Earth
- Marco Albonetti, Amarcord d’un Tango
- Contributor Biographies
The Manuscript to Jacques Ibert's Concertino da Camera: What We Can Learn from It
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Saxophone Symposium
- Nasa Executive Committee
- Notice to Contributors
- Financial Reports
- Book part
- List of Featured Concerto Performers at North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conferences, 1994–2020
- Asenath Mann: Boston's Gilded-Age Saxophonist
- Zechariah Goh and the Development of Classical Saxophone in Singapore
- Mrs. B. L. Hackenberger: Bessie Mecklem as Progressive-Era Clubwoman
- Elise Hall in Santa Barbara (1889–1898): The Amateur Musical Club and Philharmonic Society
- “Another American Voice” William Grant Still and the Saxophone
- The Manuscript to Jacques Ibert's Concertino da Camera: What We Can Learn from It
- Steven Bryant: In this Broad Earth
- Marco Albonetti, Amarcord d’un Tango
- Contributor Biographies
Summary
Abstract
Recent administrative changes at Alphonse Leduc Publishers have resulted in the availability of the manuscript to Jacques Ibert's Concertino da Camera. This article provides detailed excerpts from Ibert's original manuscript, in both the full score and piano reduction forms, along with explanations of the many questions and discrepancies regarding the work's controversial passages. A comprehensive errata list is also included. The article provides answers to many of the persistent questions that have lingered about this work since its creation in 1935.
Keywords: Ibert, Concertino, Manuscript, Saxophone, Repertory
Note: Many issues in this article are relevant to an earlier article by this author entitled “Jacques Ibert's Concertino da Camera: Origins, Early Reception History, and Current Performance Considerations” appearing in The Saxophone Symposium, vol. 33 (2009). The information in it serves as a background to material discussed below. It will also be helpful for readers to have at hand the printed full orchestral score and at least one edition of the piano reduction for reference purposes.
At long last, we have some answers. The manuscript to Jacques Ibert's Concertino da Camera has become available. Having access to this document allows us to answer some of the questions that have persisted about this work since its creation in 1935. While access to the manuscript is cause for celebration and answers some questions, it also raises others.
Background
Alphonse Leduc and Co. in Paris has had the manuscript to Ibert's Concertino da Camera in its possession since the completion of the work in 1935, although access to it was previously restricted. Recent administrative changes at Leduc have resulted in new circumstances regarding access to its manuscripts. In preparation for the sale of the company to Wise Music (which took place in late 2013), Leduc sold some of its manuscripts. When the Ibert family learned of these sales, they met with executives at Leduc to express their displeasure. Véronique Ibert Péréal, granddaughter of the composer, relates:
A few years ago, Leduc editions organized several public and private sales of the Leduc/Heugel fund [sold some of its manuscripts]. Some [Ibert] manuscripts other than the Concertino were among them. Distressed and shocked, because we had not been informed, my cousins and I met Claude Duvivier, who at the time ran Leduc editions … in September 2016. He then informed us of his decision to definitively renounce any sale of Jacques Ibert's manuscripts.
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- The Saxophone SymposiumJournal of the North American Saxophone Alliance, pp. 112 - 148Publisher: Boydell & BrewerFirst published in: 2024