Musicology Annotation << Back Bassoon in Musical Literature of the 19th–20th Centuries Valeriy Popov The article is a fragment of the 1st chapter of the book The Human Voice of the Bassoon, which is now ready to be published. The article contains the information about the bassoon parts in the musical literature of the 19th–20th centuries such as opera&symphony scores, chamber ensembles and bassoon concertos with the orchestra in the music by W. A. Mozart, G. Verdi, N. Paganini, L. van Beethoven, H. Berlios, P.I. Tchaikovsky, I.F. Stravinsky, D.D. Schostakovich and others. The author contradicts to the wide spread in Russia opinion that the bassoon had a very modest function in the scores of the composers of the 19th century. Keywords: bassoon, performance technique, solo instrument, score. Contacts: E-mail: valeri.popov@mail.ru Pp. 21-28.