Hájek: Ballade in E Minor

  Publisher: Greenway Music Press
Josef Vendelín Hájek
Ballade in E Minor for Bassoon and Piano, Op. 151 (1879)

Edited by Alex Widstrand

GMP016 Hájek: Ballade in E Minor
979-0-58039-015-8 Score + Part(s) (2025) 8.5x11, Score: iii + 7 pp.; 1 part
$20.00
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GMP016
The solo instrumental ballade, one of the defining new musical genres of nineteenth-century Romanticism, has little representation in the woodwind repertoire prior to the turn of the twentieth century, perhaps due in part to the scant attention paid to wind instruments at that time by composers in the parts of Europe where the ballade genre was most popular. The Ballade in E Minor for Bassoon and Piano, Op. 151, by Josef Vendelín Hájek, written in the southeast of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1879, thus stands as a remarkably unique specimen both within the bassoon repertoire and among instrumental ballades more broadly. This colorful, expressive work, preserved in manuscript in the National Library of the Czech Republic, not only expands the geographic and stylistic profiles of the late-Romantic bassoon solo repertoire but also sheds some light on a corner of nineteenth-century music history otherwise little represented in modern editions.