Description
Expected to be available from October 15, 2025!
The new standard work for study, teaching, and auditions!
Nicolai Pfeffer
Orchestral Excerpts for Clarinet
Important solo passages from concert and opera literature, arranged for clarinet and piano
This volume is based on the editor’s many years of teaching experience at European music academies and offers a practical, contemporary resource for students and teachers in preparing for auditions.
— All essential audition excerpts from opera and concert repertoire in a single volume
— Pianistically well-crafted, stylistically differentiated piano reductions
— Second clarinet parts plus cue notes from other instruments – for the complete orchestral context
— Precise source references and tempo indications
— First-class music engraving with libretto references and ideally placed page turns
— Digital media package with play-alongs (440/442 Hz) and video links
— Informative introductory texts by Nicolai Pfeffer (DE/EN)
The new edition of “Orchestral Excerpts for Clarinet” with piano reductions by Nicolai Pfeffer is a milestone in the training of young clarinetists. We would very much have wished to have such a comprehensive and thoroughly researched teaching resource available during our three decades of work at the Lübeck University of Music.
Absolute rhythmic precision, harmonic relationships, and of course the content and expression of an audition excerpt can only be fully understood when, alongside the solo part, one also truly senses and internalizes the accompanying voices.
We warmly congratulate and thank Nicolai Pfeffer and his team for their tremendous work. It will undoubtedly contribute significantly to the training of future orchestral musicians. The selection of excerpts is representative, and the informative commentary on each passage is extremely helpful.
Sabine Meyer & Reiner Wehle
For educators and students around the world, this book will mark a turning point in the study of orchestral excerpts. The slow and tedious process of learning and integrating tempi, context, and character will become much faster and more effective, enabling students to prepare much better for orchestra auditions. It will also be a fantastic tool for all orchestral musicians in their daily work. Thank you, Nicolai Pfeffer, for this remarkable work and the quality of the piano accompaniments. This book is a real game changer!
Nicolas Baldeyrou
“Orchesterstudien für Klarinette” is an exceptional resource of clarinet orchestral excerpts. The inclusion of piano accompaniment enhances the practice experience, adding both enjoyment and a multidimensional perspective on the interplay of voices.
I would like to extend my gratitude to the editors for their efforts in creating this invaluable compilation, which is truly an asset for every clarinetist.
Congratulations to my dear friend Nicolai!
Dejun Dong
I give my full endorsement to Nicolai Pfeffer’s Orchestral Studies for Clarinet! Unlike other editions, this book includes piano reductions of the orchestra, providing essential context for preparing these beautiful solos.
Bravissimo, Nicolai! Every student and professional will find it extremely helpful.
Yehuda Gilad
For the new generation of clarinetists, this recently published volume by Nicolai Pfeffer offers a fantastic opportunity to prepare all the most important orchestral excerpts for clarinet with piano accompaniment, and thus to become even more familiar with them. At last, it is possible in lessons or coaching sessions to gain direct insight into the orchestral accompaniment, rhythmic structures, and harmonic context of a given passage.
This volume was long overdue!
Kilian Herold
Nicolai Pfeffer has made a really smart and accurate job putting together in this volume most of the well-known clarinet orchestral solos. By also providing the piano part, he offers highly valuable help for all the students who want to fully understand the excerpts in the inner details both from the soloistic and harmonic point of view. Also a very significant aid for didactic purposes and for the preparation of auditions. Bravo!
Luigi Magistrelli
It is a great joy to work with this book. Having the piano reductions makes this volume a great tool for clarinetists seeking a more complete approach to performing and understanding the musical roles in each musical piece.
Ricardo Morales
Many years ago, both as a student and later as a teacher, I painstakingly tried to “cobble together” usable piano parts from piano reductions and full scores in order to study the most important orchestral excerpts—incorporating or simulating the orchestral part—together with my piano partners and répétiteurs. The fact that Nicolai Pfeffer’s edition now provides such a clear and carefully prepared collection feels like a great blessing—not only for me and surely many colleagues, but above all for the students. Thank you for this!
Matthias Schorn
