Prelude from "Die Meistersinger" (score & parts) - 7BSN/2CBSN

Prelude from "Die Meistersinger"
for seven bassoons and two contrabassoons
by Richard Wagner (1813-1883) - German opera composer

Arranged by William Spencer

ABOUT THE ARRANGER

Bassoonist, conductor, and composer William Spencer began his serious musical studies on bassoon at age 12 (after a few years of piano lessons had no apparent effect whatsoever). His teachers included among others Leonard Sharrow and Sherman Walt, former principals of the Chicago and Boston Symphonies respectively. He holds degrees from Boston University in bassoon and musicology, and a doctorate in conducting from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, where he studied with Frederik Prausnitz. Over the course of five summers at the Aspen Music Festival he studied bassoon and conducting at different times, the latter with Paul Vermel. As a composer he has dabbled in song cycles, smaller-scale choral works, and double-reed-themed diversions.