Two Pieces Op. 26 (Evening & Rondo Caprice) for Clarinet and Piano by Otto Goldschmidt edited by Colin Bradbury. Lazarus Edition, 1999, SS, 18 + 4 pages. Otto Goldschmidt (1829-1907) was born in Hamburg and studied piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatorium under Bülow and Mendelssohn. He married the great Swedish soprano Jenny Lind in 1852 and settled in London in 1858. His Two Pieces for clarinet and piano were published in 1900 with a dedication 'to my friend Oscar W. Street.' Evening (Adagio) is in fact a straight transcription of a song published nearly fifty years earlier as the second of Goldschmidt's Sechs Lieder Op. 9, a setting of a poem by Hölty entitled Gruss an den Abend. The quotation in the Rondo Caprice(Vivace/Andantino) is presumably from another early song, as yet unidentified. (C1132)