Etienne Ozi’s Method for Bassoon and his contemporaries
While earlier books of sonatas are published for the bassoon, such as Giovanni Antonio Bertoli’s collection from 1645, Etienne Ozi’s Méthode de Basson is the earliest, most comprehensive method for bassoon that includes illustrations, reed making, exercises, sonatas, duets etc. There are two versions of the his method book. The first version was published in 1787, and the second version was published in 1803 and contains a section on reed making. His entire method, in French, can...
