Krommer: Works for Clarinet and Orchestra

“For the musicologist, Franz Krommer’s works are interesting in many respects. They have not been sufficiently appreciated in historical terms until now.” This is what Heinrich Riehl wrote in a popular anthology in 1878. Another writer pointed out that Krommer’s “work was so rich in original ideas, wit, flamboyance, with surprising harmonic developments and striking modulations” that made it a veritable alternative to Haydn’s music.