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TEST FOR
TIMPANISTS
"Test for Timpanists is based on famous excerpts from the classical timpani literature.
The piece is basically meant for auditions, but is also appropriate for concert performance.
I composed "bridges" between some of the excerpts in order to connect them".
Søren Monrad, principal timpanist, Royal Danish Orchestra
The excerpts are taken from:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Puccini: La Bohème, Act 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World", scherzo
Nielsen: Symphony No. 3
Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, first part
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, second timpani
Britten: Peter Grimes
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, Act 2, Scene 6
Mozart: Cosí fan tutte, No. 8 chorus
Richard Strauss: Salome, final scene
Schostakovitj: Lady Macbeth
Puccini: theme from La Bohème, not the original timpani part except for the last two
bars which are from the end of Act 2
Copyright © 1991, 2007 by Edition Svitzer
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