Oboe quartet

The two-movement quartet for oboe and string trio by Alessandro Rolla was presumed lost, but the autograph score of the work has in fact been held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen since 1929. Thoroughly Classical in terms of its musical language and structure (in spite of some unexpected virtuoso episodes for the violin), the work is a welcome addition to the sparse repertoire of compositions for oboe and strings emanating from early nineteenth-century Italy.