''Légende'' (1906) is a work for

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

and

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, composed by

George Enescu George Enescu (; – 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher. Regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history, Enescu is featured on the Romanian five lei. Biogr ...

for the 1906 trumpet competition (''concours'') at the

Paris Conservatory The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

and premiered in the competition by students from the trumpet class of Professor

Merri Franquin Merri Jean Baptiste Franquin (b. 19 October 1848, Lançon, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, d. 1934) was a French trumpeter, cornetist, and flugelhornist who was professor of trumpet at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1894 until 1925. Franquin was a te ...

, to whom the work is dedicated. The fact that Enescu found it unnecessary to specify "chromatic trumpet" or "trumpet in C" in the work's title (which might have been normal just a few years earlier) may be seen as a testament to Franquin's influence in adopting of the modern, small trumpet . A simple listing of the performance indications which follow each other in the score indicates the constantly evolving character of the music: ''doux'', ''grave'', ''hésitante'', ''pathétique'', ''gracieux'', ''mouvement agité'', ''chantant'', ''vif'', ''furieusement'', ''rêveur'' .

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International Music Company
- a U.S. publisher of ''Legende''.

* ttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B000H9TQW2 Recording by Wolfgang Bauer* ttp://philharmusica.com Philharmusica Co. a U.S. publisher of new edition ''Legende''. (For both C and B-flat trumpet) {{DEFAULTSORT:Legende (Enescu) Compositions by George Enescu Compositions for trumpet 1906 compositions Compositions in C minor

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