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Alexander Tcherepnin Sonatine Sportive

PUBLISHER: Alphonse Leduc 

COMPOSER: Alexander Tcherepnin 

FORMAT: Sheet Music | Instrumental Album

ISBN: 9790046200908 

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate-Advanced Explain this

PUBLISHED ON: 05 April 2014 

NO OF PAGES: 14 

LANGUAGE: English, French 

CATALOGUE NO: AL20090

As the title suggests, this Sonatine interprets musical elements of sport. With this in mind, Tcherepnine's Sonatine is a highly amusing, energetic and fun piece to play for saxophonists. 

Russian born composer Alexandre Tcherepnine (1899-1977), moved to Paris with his family in 1921 following the increasingly hostile political environment in Russia. During WWII, Tcherepnine's composing activities virtually stopped. However, just before doing so, he composed his Sonatine Sportive. The first movement interprets boxers, with pulsating quavers in the piano part representing a defence. Movement two suggests a rest that the two players take before the 'racing' third movement, written in the form of a canon. With such stimulating and imaginative creativity, Tcherepnine's Sonatine is essential to the saxophonist's repertoire.