“There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears, That in billions of years, I shall certainly hit on a tune.” Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician & Philosopher.
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The bassoon has a very similar history and development to that of the oboe. It came from the Dulcian, around the time that the Shawm was beginning to be replaced by the oboe. In Italy in the late 17th Century, it was named the Fagotto, in France the Fagottez, and in England the Bassoon.
Played using a double-reed, the bassoon is usually made out of European Maple wood, and has a conical bore which doubles back on itself, making the pitch deeper. It originally had just three or four keys, but during the 18th Century, it began to have six keys. Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto for example, was written for a model with six keys.
At the turn of the 19th Century, bassoons had eight keys, and during the following years, many more keys were added, and two models emerged, the German Heckel Style and the French Buffet Style. These are the two models on which our modern day bassoons are based.
From Lieder Ohne Worte
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1300808
Inspired By Mozart
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297874
aus Kantate BWV 151
for: Bassoon, organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1290498
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253466
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253454
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253439
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253429
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253423
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253362
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1253225
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1563603
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1630386
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1579959
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1580621
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1631639
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1631519
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1580279
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284632
Op. 33 (1876)
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282183
inspired by Antonin Dvorak
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1277857
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1278062
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1279434
Behüt' uns heut'
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1279003
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275869
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1607115
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1604955
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1607426
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1630173
for: Bassoon
Sheet music
Item no.: 1630007
for: Bassoon
Sheet music
Item no.: 1629904
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1637110
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1636106
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1611726
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1613717
for: 2 bassoons
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1304359
BWV 62
for: Bassoon, organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1287074
Mein Ideal
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1287165
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1567264
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1567204
nach Motiven von G.B. Pergolesi
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297454
Country Dance
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1296785
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1313302
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1313292
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1313281
for: 4 bassoons
Sheet music
Item no.: 1313280
for: 2 bassoons, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1283806
for: 2 bassoons, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284443
Opus 8, Nr. 11
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1284656