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Jacques Ibert: Escales
For oboe & piano. Edition Leduc, difficulty:4
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Gordon Jacob: Sonatina for Oboe and Piano
Edition Oxford, difficulty:5
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Gordon Jacob: Interludes for Oboe and Piano
Edition Emerson, difficulty:4

Gordon Jacob: Seven Bagatelles for Solo Oboe
Edition Oxford, difficulty:4
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Deborah Kavasch: The Fox and the Grapes
For soprano and English horn. Duration ca. 6:30, Edition Fish Creek Music, difficulty:4

Jan Koetsier: Partita for English horn and Organ
Edition Presser, difficulty:4
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Marcia Kraus: Pied Piper Fantasy for English Horn, Narrator and Orchestra EH
This music drama, featuring the English horn and written especially for young audiences, incorporates an abridged version of Robert Browning's poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". Piano reduction version. Edition KrausHaus, difficulty:4.

Marcia Kraus: 3 Fairy Tales
Trio for oboe, soprano voice, and piano based on Anderson's tales "The Emperor and the Nightingale", "The Little Mermaid", and "The Ugly Duckling". Includes 2 piano scores plus oboe part. Difficulty:5

Franz Krommer: Oboe Concerto in F Major op.37
Revision and piano reduction by David Walter. Edition Billaudot, difficulty:4
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Ludwig August Lebrun: Oboe Concerto No.1 in D minor
Edited by Hermann Töttcher, with piano reduction by Helmut May and cadenza by Lothar Koch. Edition Schott, difficulty:4
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Jean Baptiste Loeillet: 3 Sonatas for Oboe Opus 1
For oboe & basso continuo. Includes sonatas 1, 2, and 3, edited by Johann Philip Hinnenthal. Edition Bärenreiter, difficulty:3

Marin Marais: Le Basque
Transcription for oboe and piano by Jennifer Sperry. Popularized by James Galway as an encore piece. Difficulty:3

Marin Marais: Les Folies d'Espagne
for solo flute. One of the required pieces for the 2007 IDRS Gillet-Fox Oboe Competition. Edition Baerenreiter, difficulty:5

Marin Marais: Variations on La Folia
For treble instrument and continuo. Includes Marais' own bass line with a special realization for each variation. B & D Publications, difficulty:4
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Marin Marais: 3 Old French Dances
For oboe and piano. Edition Chester, difficulty:3
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By convention the Marcello oboe concerto in D minor is attributed to Alessandro Marcello, and the concerto in C minor is attributed to Benedetto Marcello. This is by no means univeral, some people do the opposite.
They are the same piece (one has been transposed), so we recommend you ignore the first name and select based on the key.

Benedetto Marcello: Oboe Concerto in C Minor
With piano reduction. Edition Southern Music, difficulty:3
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Alessandro Marcello: Oboe Concerto in D Minor
With piano reduction. Edited by Hugo Ruf. Edition Schott, difficulty:3
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John Marvin: Five Pieces for English Horn and Piano
Edition Fish Creek Music, difficulty:3-4
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John Marvin: Music from the Night
For 2 oboes & English horn. Commissioned by, and dedicated to, Julie Ann Giacobassi and Zach Hall. Edition Fish Creek Music, difficulty:4
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Bohuslav Martinu: Concerto for Oboe
With piano reduction. Edition Eschig, difficulty:5
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Oboe Duets and Trios (Country Dances), Vol. I
35 oboe duets and trios arranged and edited by Evelyn McCarty.
32 pages. Edition Southern Music, difficulty:2-3
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Oboe Duets and Trios (Country Dances), Vol. II
20 duets and trios edited and arranged by Evelyn McCarty.
20 pages. Edition Southern Music, difficulty:2-3
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Karl Marx: 6 Miniaturen op 62/2 for Oboe D'Amore and Piano
Edition Baerenreiter, difficulty:4

Carl Matthes: Sonata for English Horn and Piano
Arranged by Julie Giacobassi. Duration Ca. 7:00. Edition Fish Creek Music, difficulty:3

Felix Mendelssohn: Romances sans Paroles, op. 19
Originally for piano, these 5 Romances have been transcribed by David Walter for oboe and piano (#4 for oboe or oboe d'amore). Edition Billaudot, difficulty:3

Felix Mendelssohn: Song Without Words
Transcribed for oboe, English horn & piano by Jennifer Sperry. Difficulty:2-3

Felix Mendelssohn: Song Without Words
Arranged for oboe and piano by Eleanore Zverov. Edition Southern Music, difficulty:2

Rafael Mevorach: Bring Me an Axe and a Spade
For soprano, oboe and string quartet. A three movement work inspired by poems by Katherine Morgan. Score and parts. Edition Mevorach, difficulty:4

Rafael Mevorach: Clouds
For soprano and oboe (or two oboes). Thirteen short movements inspired by poems by Mosquera, Mantis, Sobel, Sakamoto, Wilson, Ditko, Marsh, Kojima and Carraher. Two performance scores included. Edition Mevorach, difficulty:4

Rafael Mevorach: Duet for Oboes (1982)
Two movement work, subtitled "Sunrise","Dark Clouds Gather" and "Sudden Summer Storm/Clearing". Edition Mevorach, difficulty:4

Rafael Mevorach: Duet for Oboe and B flat Clarinet (1982)
Three short movements. 2 performance scores included. Edition Mevorach, difficulty:4

Rafael Mevorach: Four Miniatures for Oboe and Piano
Composed for John Dee in commemoration of his appointment at the University of Illinois. Edition Mevorach, difficulty:5

Rafael Mevorach: Movement for Oboe and Piano
Edition Mevorach, difficulty:3

Rafael Mevorach: Quartet for Oboe Ensemble
A four movement piece for 4 players.
Score and parts included. Edition Mevorach, difficulty:4
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Rafael Mevorach: Spacings II for Oboe and Percussion
A three movement work written for, and dedicated to, John Dee. The challenging oboe part employs some multiphonics, the percussion part is written for one person playing a variety of instruments. Edition Mevorach, difficulty:5.

Raphael Mevorach: Three Pieces for Oboe (1972)
Three short pieces for solo oboe. Edition Mevorach, difficulty:4

Valarie Morris: Bay Cruise for 2 oboes
Edition Sandscape, difficulty:2-3

Valarie Morris: Serenade
For oboe & piano. Edition Sandscape, difficulty:1-2

Valarie Morris: Für Alise
For solo oboe. Edition Sandscape, difficulty:2

Valarie Morris: Serenade
For English horn and piano. Edition Sandscape, difficulty:1-2

Valarie Morris: What a Week! for 2 oboes
Edition Sandscape, difficulty:1-3

Valarie Morris: What a Year! for 2 oboes
Edition Sandscape, difficulty:1-2

W.A. Mozart: Adagio in F Major
Adagio for clarinet and 3 basset horns (KV 580a) arranged for solo oboe (or clarinet, flute, or cello) and piano by Franz Beyer. Includes parts for oboe (or flute), clarinet, violin, and piano score. Edition Kunzelmann, difficulty:3

W.A. Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F KV 370
For oboe violin, viola and 'cello. Includes parts for oboe, violin, viola, and cello only, no score is included. Edition Bärenreiter, difficulty:4
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W.A. Mozart Concerto in C, K. 314
Oboe & piano reduction. Edited by F. Gillet & R. Blair. Edition Southern Music, difficulty:4
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W.A. Mozart: Cadenzas for Mozart Oboe Concerto
Cadenzas by John Corina, based on his analysis of a cadenza Mozart wrote for his piano concerto in C. B&D Publications, difficulty:4

W.A. Mozart: Cadenzas for Oboe Concerto in C, K. 314
3 Cadenzas by John Mack. B & D Publications, difficulty:5

W.A. Mozart: Marriage Duet from "The Magic Flute"
Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen. Arranged for oboe, English horn & piano by Jennifer Sperry. Difficulty:1

W.A. Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C, K. 314
"The authoritative performing edition". Edited by Franz Giegling with cadenzas by Frank de Bruine, piano reduction by Martin Schelhaas. Edition Baerenreiter Urtext, difficulty:4
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W.A. Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F, K.370
Composed for oboe, violin, viola, and cello, this edition is arranged for oboe and piano by Peter Hodgson. Edition Peters, difficulty:4

W.A. Mozart: Grand Duo
Arranged for 2 oboes by Gunther Joppig. Edition Universal, difficulty:3

W.A. Mozart: Sonata in F Major K.374D
Arranged for 2 oboes by F.E. Thurner. Edition Universal, difficulty:3

Our music difficulty rating is a subjective attempt to quantify each piece's difficulty.
1: Begining 2: Early Intermediate 3: Advanced Intermediate 4: Advanced 5: Difficult

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