About the book
Cyrille Rose (1830–1902) was a French clarinettist and professor at the Paris Conservatoire, and his 40 Studies for Clarinet are, with his 32 Études, the standard conservatoire études for the instrument: each is a single piece for the unaccompanied clarinet, numbered as in the print, with a metronome mark at the head.
Reading the page. The tempo words are Italian as printed, and the metronome marks are the print's. A comma above the staff is a breath mark.
The engraving is a Practice Farm engraving from Carl Fischer's edition (New York, 1910), which is in the public domain.
Source: Carl Fischer, New York (1910, plates 12964 and 12965).
