Two Pieces for Wind Quintet (Ropartz)

Guy Ropartz's Two Pieces for Wind Quintet (Deux pièces pour quintette à vent) is a composition for wind quintet composed in 1924, published in 1926 by Durand, and first performed in 1927.

[1][2] In 1978 it was recorded on LP by the Boehm Quintette for the Orion label, along with wind quintets by Irwin Bazelon and Franz Danzi.

"[4] The piece also appears on the 1998 CD, Woodwind: The Danish Wind Quintet.

The work is scored for a quintet of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn and is structured in two movements of differing tempos :

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Portrait of Guy Ropartz by Jac Pohier