FUNERAL MARCH OF A MARIONETTE

Funeral March of a Marionette dates from the 1850s and was originally written for orchestra, since when it has appeared in numerous other guises. One of the best known is the bassoon ensemble arrangement, used as the theme for the Hitchcock series of films on television. The middle section, or trio, is not the most inspiring imaginable - even less so when played as a solo. The arranger has therefore taken the liberty of substituting the trio section from the scherzo of the Little Symphony for Wind Instruments mentioned above. This is much nicer for bassoonists to play, and acts as a suitable foil to the lugubrious main theme. Charles Gounod was born in Paris in 1818 into an artistic family. His father was a painter and his mother a pianist and daughter of a professor of piano at the Conservatoire. It was his mother who gave him his first piano lessons. He entered the Conservatoire in 1836 and won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1839. At one stage in his life, when organist and choirmaster

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