Scherzo Op.58 (1944)

Though an extraordinarily prolific composer in everything but opera and an influential figure in French musical life round the middle of the last century, Eugène Bozza is remembered these days for little other than his music for wind instruments. His little Scherzo for wind quintet, which seems to challenge both Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble Bee and (at the end) Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Scherzo, is a brilliant example of his mastery of the medium.