This piece, Cake-Walk, belongs to a series of educational pieces composed in 2021 that combine a requirement for brevity with a reduced range, dictated solely by the low notes accessible to the left hand of young clarinetists.

Each of these miniatures is written as a tribute to a leading composer, chosen for their entertaining and deliberately eclectic style.

Cake-Walk is a tribute to Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Frédéric Cellier

Encouraged by Jean Françaix, who praised him as an “excellent musician and tireless arranger,” Frédéric Cellier is the founder and artistic director of STRADIVARIUS Editions.

He is the author of light music pieces played around the world and a considerable number of arrangements in all styles and for all instruments, acclaimed by many personalities in the music world, including Michèle Auric, Jean Françaix, Adrian Gershwin, Wynton Marsalis, Yehudi Menuhin, Madeleine Milhaud, Manuel Rosenthal, Gabriel Tacchino, and Ornella Volta.

A concert clarinetist and certified teacher at the National Conservatories of Nice, Marseille, and Avignon, Frédéric Cellier is a laureate of the Fondation de France and the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation.