Aria

Born to an Italian father and a French mother, Eugène Bozza (1905-1991) divided his music studies between the Academia Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was taught by Henri Büsser and Henri Rabaud. Hischamber music compositions reveal a marked predilection for wind instruments, as reflected in Fantaisie pastorale for oboe and piano (1939) and New-Orléans for bass saxhorn and piano (1944). During his stay a few years earlier atthe Villa Medici in Rome (1936), Bozza had written his Aria Pour Saxophone Alto Et Piano x001A a free adaptation of the third movement of Johann Sebastian Bach_x001A_s Organ Pastorale in F major BWV 590. This expansive and nostalgic melody,which unfolds over a regular meter, has become one of the most widely played SaxoËphone pieces in the world. Having enjoyed such success, Éditions Leduc has decided to supplement its republication with an audio version that willenable saxoËphonists to carry out _x001A_full-scalex001A practice.