SONATA

Wolfgang Jacobi's three years of study in Berlin led to his appointment as a teacher of music theory there in the early 1920's and the start of his composing career. In 1933 he fled Nazism for Florence but was forced to return to Germany a year later and was prohibited from all musical activity until the end of WW2 in 1945 when Jacobi took up the study of composition, harmony and counterpoint in Munich. He returned to teaching and composition and committed himself to cultural development, particularly amongst the young. He founded the 'Studio for New Music' but was influenced by Debussy, Hindemith. Reger and Bartok and described himself as a neo-classicist.
The Alto Saxophone Sonata was written between 1930 & 1932 and dedicated to Sigurd Rascher. The first movement (Allegro ma non troppo) is marked by persistent staccato semi-quavers, mostly in groups of four, a careful mixture of legato and staccato tonguing and a syncopated dialogue between saxophone and piano. The triple-time second movement (Sarabande) is mysterious, at times sinister and uses a wide range of dynamics at the extremes of the saxophone's range in varying semi-quaver groupings. The erratic sounding and unsettling scherzo Finale (Allegro) is characterised by the soloist's attacks placed on upbeats and the piece ends in a rapid descent through nearly two octaves and a sustained note cut off by a sforzando.

• II. Sarabande
• III. Allegro

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