“Favourite dish in exchange for favourite music” – this perfectly summarizes the genesis of the Konzertstücke. When the clarinettist Heinrich Joseph Baermann and his son Carl, who also played the Basset Horn, stopped to pay a visit to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 1832, they came to a most curious agreement: they promised their composer friend a generous portion of “Dampfnudeln” (steamed dumplings) and “Rahmstrudel” (sweet-cheese strudel) that Mendelssohn was mad about, if he were to write a piece for them which they could use on their concert tours. The Konzertstück in f minor that originated in this fashion was followed shortly afterwards by a second one in d minor. Both are extremely effective works which wonderfully bring out the unique sound and performance technique of the two instruments from the Clarinet family.
| Arrangement | Basset Horn, Clarinet, Piano Accompaniment |
| Genres | Classical |
| Format | Score |
| NumberOfPages | 65 |
| Media | Sheet Music |
| Series | Henle Urtext Editions |
| Publisher | Henle, Henle Verlag |
| Contributors | Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix (Composer) |
| Language | English |
| ISMN | 9790201810676 |