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Alexander Zemlinsky is known primarily for his orchestral works and songs with their luxurious late-romantic orchestration. His first youthful and ingenious work, the Clarinet Trio op. 3 of 1896, is still heavily indebted, in tone and instrumentation, to his first great model, Johannes Brahms. And none other than Brahms himself enthusiastically recommended the trio to his publisher Simrock for publication after its premiere in Vienna. In 1896, Zemlinsky presented the clarinet trio previously composed under the pseudonym “Beethoven” at a composition competition organized by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde “for works with at least one wind instrument” and won the third prize. Our practical new edition of Zemlinsky's Clarinet Trio corrects the numerous errors present in the first edition published for the first time by Simrock and is enriched with an excellent printed image, bar numbers, study marks and ideal turning points.

In addition to the clarinet and cello parts, it also includes an arrangement of the violin clarinet part, presumably made by Zemlinsky himself, as well as a detailed preface in three languages.