As a student, Heinz Gröschke performed on the piano together with students of his composition teacher Gustav Bumcke (1876-1963), who founded the first saxophone class in Germany in 1927. Gröschke premiered this composition in Berlin in 1936 together with the German Saxophone Quartet (Gustav Bumcke, his daughter Hilde [artist name Ingrid Larssen], Emil Manz and Karl Petzelt). The virtuoso piano part points to Gröschke's remarkable pianistic abilities. Stylistically, the piece stands in the late R...