Latest Posts
German composer Paul Hindemith wrote more than forty sonatas. In addition to at least one sonata for each standard orchestral woodwind, brass, and string instrument, he wrote for a number of less-common solo instruments, including the English horn, the viola […]
Auguste Mesnard was born November 17, 1875 in Cognac, France. He began his musical career as a violinist, studying at the Ecole Nationale de Musique d’Angoulème, and earning a first prize from there in 1891. After an unsuccessful audition to enter […]
In Fall 2014, I was lucky enough to be invited to play Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, K. 191 with Sac State’s University Orchestra under the direction of Leo Eylar. The Mozart concerto is the piece that follows bassoonists around for their […]
Resources
Download and print these free easy-to-read fingering charts. Used by teachers around the world!
Blank charts for modern and various historical bassoons—use them to make your own charts or to notate new or rarely used fingerings
A sortable list of the works used for the Paris Conservatoire’s annual bassoon concours (contest)
A sortable concordance of Antonio Vivaldi’s 39 bassoon concertos, to help sort through the five different cataloguing systems for his works.