Audition Piece for Trumpet (Zubiaurre)

The Pieza De Cornetin con Accompanamiento De Piano para oposiciónes (Audition Piece for Cornet/Trumpet with Piano Accompaniment) is a short piece by the Spanish composer Valentin Zubiaurre written for either trumpet or cornet.

From 1878 Valentin Zubiaurre worked at the Madrid Royal Conservatory as a composer of audition pieces for potential members of the school.

He had experience in this form of composition from his duties at the Chapel Royal, where he composed audition pieces for most instruments, as well as religious music.

[1] The Pieza De Cornetin para oposiciónes is his piece for the trumpet, and was probably used as a setpiece for final examinations in the conservatoire.

For examination purposes it was designed to show off the performer's ability to play a slow melody with a good sound and sensitive phrasing.