Sight-Reading Pieces for Clarinet and Piano

The Paris Conservatoire solos, both the sight-reading works and the longer contest pieces, are the first extended series of compositions for woodwinds, brass, and harp in music history. While composers such as Mozart, Weber, and Robert Schumann contributed a few significant works for these instruments, the Conservatoire solos were composed annually for each instrument beginning in the 1830s. The wealth of musical treasures resulting from this systematic accumulation of works represents the core of these instrumental repertories today.

1. Andante quasi allegretto, Léo Delibes (1879)
2. Andantino, Charles Lenepveu (1879)
3. Andante appassionato, Jules Massenet (1881)
4. Ben moderato, Anonymous (1883)
5. Andantino molto marcato, Adrien Barthe (1884)
6. Andante maestoso, Barthe (1890)
7. Andante molto espressivo, Paul Taffanel (1891)
8. Andante pastorale, Taffanel (1891)
9. Andante con moto, Lenepveu (1892)
10. Allegro, Ernest Guiraud (undated)
11. Andante, Paul Vidal (1895)
12. Un poco maestoso, Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (1897)
13. Allegro scherzando, André Messager (1899)
14. Très modéré, Raoul Pugno (undated)
15. Molto lento, Augusta Holmès (1900)
16. Moderato, Charles-Marie Widor (1909)
17. Andantino, Vidal (1909)
18. Modéré et doucement rythmé, Claude Debussy (1910)
19. Andante, Jules Mouquet (1916)
20. Très lent, Gabriel Pierné (1918)
21. Scherzando, Anonymous (1921)
22. Andantino, Anonymous (1922)
23. Assez lent, Anonymous (1924)
24. Andantino, Mouquet (1925)
25. Andantino, Anonymous (undated)
26. Andantino, Anonymous (undated)
27. Modéré, Anonymous (undated)