Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto was written between 1947 and 1949, although a first version was already available in 1948. This composition is also sometimes referred to as the Concerto for Clarinet, Strings and Harp. The concerto would later be choreographed by Jerome Robbins for the ballet Pied Piper (1951).
Soon after Copland composed his Third Symphony, jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, in 1947, commissioned him to write a clarinet concerto. ...
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Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto was written between 1947 and 1949, although a first version was already available in 1948. This composition is also sometimes referred to as the Concerto for Clarinet, Strings and Harp. The concerto would later be choreographed by Jerome Robbins for the ballet Pied Piper (1951).
Soon after Copland composed his Third Symphony, jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, in 1947, commissioned him to write a clarinet concerto. Goodman tells Copland biographer Vivian Perlis:
"I made no demands on what Copland should write. He had completely free rein, except that I should have a two-year exclusivity on playing the work. I paid two thousand dollars and that's real money. At the time there were not too many American composers to pick from... We never had much trouble except for a little fracas about the spot before the cadenza where he had written a repetition of some phrase. I was a little sticky about leaving it out- it was where the viola was the echo to give the...
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