Aida di G. Verdi Fantasia Op. 240 for Clarinet and Piano by Giusto Dacci edited by Colin Bradbury. Lazarus Edition, 2003, SS, 23 + 11 pages. Entering the Royal Parma School of Music as a boarder at the age of eleven, Giusto Dacci (1840-1915) was to spend the rest of his working life there as piano teacher, Professor of Harmony and eventually, in 1875, Director and Composer in Residence. His compositions, over 500 in all, include songs, piano pieces, chamber music and operatic fantasies for various instruments, including five for clarinet and piano. The fantasia on Aida was published approximately two years after the first performance of Verdi's opera at the Cairo Opera House (24 December 1871). It makes free use of the priests' motive first heard in the opera's prelude to link together a selection of the work's best known tunes. An advanced work. (C1133)