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ID19455362-BA3E-4FC3-8687-AC4307A2AA0F
TitlecodeSU821
Title NameAlto Saxophone Concerto (solo/ piano reduction)
Marketing CopyJaromir Weinberger, a noted Czech composer, achieved sudden fame in 1927 with the production of his opera, Svanda dudâk (Schwanda, the Bagpiper), written in a popular Bohemian style, at the Czech Opera in Prague. Weinberger fled Europe under the growing Nazi threat and took up residence in New York in 1939, where he enjoyed a number of major orchestral performances and commissions of all kinds. One of these came from renowned saxophonist Cecil Leeson, who asked Weinberger to compose a concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra.

Due to the outbreak of World War II, the premiere would not happen until 1946, six years after the completion of the concerto in piano score. The work was revised following the premiere, and it is only now that those revisions have been incorporated into the solo saxophone and piano reduction with this performance edition by Weinberger scholar, publisher and saxophonist Tristan Willems.
InstrumentationAlto Sax, Piano reduction from: 2.2.2.2: 2.2(Bb).0.0: Perc(1): Str
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Title Brand4
Year Composed1940/2018
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Duration16
Ensemble Size2
Date Created2018-09-21 20:30:25.000000
Date Updated2025-09-30 20:30:25
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Title Category13
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Title Grade9
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Title Instrument Category TextAlto Saxophone
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