Edouard Nanny: Three Caprices for double bass & piano (ed. Heyes)

About the Caprices

Nanny’s Three Caprices are ideal for both study and recital repertoire, exploring the entire range of the solo double bass and ideal for the intermediate bassist. Written in the style of a moto perpetuo, with technical challenges aplenty, each caprice is spirited and accessible, with its own engaging and stylish character, offering much to performers and audiences alike.

The accompaniments are simple and supportive, and each caprice works equally well with or without piano accompaniment.

This edition includes accompaniments for both solo and orchestral tuning.

About the Composer

Édouard Nanny (1872-1942) was the leading French bassist of his generation, taught at the Paris Conservatoire for 20 years, and is recognised as the founder of the modern French double bass school.

Alongside a wealth of transcriptions for double bass, Nanny also composed a series of original works which are worthy of revival in the 21st-century. His music is elegant and charming, exploiting the lyrical and technical possibilities of the double bass, and all are useful as both study and concert repertoire for the progressing bassist.

An anniversary is a good time to reassess a composer’s work and Recital Music is planning to create new editions of a number of Nanny’s original works and transcriptions, in both tunings, this year.

Édouard Nanny is an important figure in the development of the double bass in the first forty years of the 20th-century, particularly in France, and much of his educational music is still in print today. He made an amazing contribution to the double bass world and deserves to be celebrated and remembered.