Dissociation: Mere Bozza
IMPROVISATION ET CAPRICE
September 13, 2011
By Eugène Bozza
Saxophone Studio Presentation
Presented by Robby Avila
“The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.” - Plato
Eugène Bozza (4 April 1905 – 28 September 1991)
Eugène Bozza was a 20th century French musician and talented composer who wrote many important works for not only the saxophone, but for nearly every wind instrument. He was born in Nice on the 4th of April 1905. He studied the arts of composition, conducting, and playing the violin at the Paris Conservatoire. There, he won the Prix de Rome for his work La legend de Roukmani, a cantata based on an Indian legend. After completing his course of study in Paris, he moved to Valenciennes, where he would become the director of the École Nacionale de Musique. There he would remain until his …show more content…
The piece is a challenging work, pushing students with demands of musicality, technique, tone, and rhythm. Not uncommon amongst composers, Bozza often “plagiarized” from himself, borrowing ideas he had used in earlier works to aid in the composition of a newer one. The Improvisation portion of this piece is no different. It is lifted from the middle section of his Image Op. 32, a piece he had written for unaccompanied flute. Although different in the sense that it transposed down a minor third with an added fermata at the end, all other aspects remain the same. The Caprice portion, however, appears to be completely original in Bozza’s library of compositions. On a related note, the outside sections of his Image appear in another work for saxophone. This composition Piece Bréve, another unaccompanied saxophone piece, uses the rest of his musical ideas from
September 13, 2011
By Eugène Bozza
Saxophone Studio Presentation
Presented by Robby Avila
“The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.” - Plato
Eugène Bozza (4 April 1905 – 28 September 1991)
Eugène Bozza was a 20th century French musician and talented composer who wrote many important works for not only the saxophone, but for nearly every wind instrument. He was born in Nice on the 4th of April 1905. He studied the arts of composition, conducting, and playing the violin at the Paris Conservatoire. There, he won the Prix de Rome for his work La legend de Roukmani, a cantata based on an Indian legend. After completing his course of study in Paris, he moved to Valenciennes, where he would become the director of the École Nacionale de Musique. There he would remain until his …show more content…
The piece is a challenging work, pushing students with demands of musicality, technique, tone, and rhythm. Not uncommon amongst composers, Bozza often “plagiarized” from himself, borrowing ideas he had used in earlier works to aid in the composition of a newer one. The Improvisation portion of this piece is no different. It is lifted from the middle section of his Image Op. 32, a piece he had written for unaccompanied flute. Although different in the sense that it transposed down a minor third with an added fermata at the end, all other aspects remain the same. The Caprice portion, however, appears to be completely original in Bozza’s library of compositions. On a related note, the outside sections of his Image appear in another work for saxophone. This composition Piece Bréve, another unaccompanied saxophone piece, uses the rest of his musical ideas from