Three Miniatures for Clarinet and Piano is an early work by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.
They were dedicated to Władysław Kosieradzki, who was the clarinet professor at the Academy of Music in Kraków,[2] and were premiered by the dedicatée at the clarinet and Zbigniew Jeżewski at the piano in the 1958 Polish Composers' Union concert, which took place in November 17.
The general mood and style of the work differs from the following works and shows no signs of Penderecki's later radicalism,[4] in the sense that these miniatures are not focused on the sonority of the instruments to generate atmospheres, probably influenced by Béla Bartók.
[5] The miniatures were titled as follows:[6] The two outer movements of this composition are active and fast, while the middle one is slower and more meditative.
[3] Vincent McDermott, from The Musical Quarterly, described the whole set of miniatures as "dull".