Gade (Anderson): Fantasy Pieces, op. 43 for Clarinet and Piano Clarinet Music_E-flat Contra Clarinet Geppetto - An old man

Geppetto - An old man makes a wooden marionette

The piano part is more challenging than that of the clarinet

but fortunately for clarinetists

Inspired by Nicholas Carr's book The Glass Cage

for whom the composer had written the trio a year earlier

Gade (Anderson): Fantasy Pieces, op. 43 for Clarinet and Piano Clarinet Music_E-flat Contra Clarinet Geppetto - An old manCode: JP2069 ISMN: 979 0 3019 0212 7 Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817 1890) was a major figure in nineteenth century Danish music, having important and influential positions as a composer, conductor, organist, violinist, teacher, and administrator. He furthered the careers of many important musicians, among them Carl Nielsen, who he taught at the Copenhagen Academy of Music. Gade's "Fantasistykker (Fantasy Pieces) for Clarinet and Piano" was composed in 1864.