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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000081.txt from 2003/10

From: Arthur Grossman <artg@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [DR-L] re. Brahms/Hindemith query
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:46:03 -0400

Hindemith was indeed a polymath. He played many instruments and did claim
that he could play anything he wrote on any of them. As far as I am
aware, no-one tested him on that, but certainly he was a master violist
and could have easily made his living as a viola virtuoso. It is reported
that he studied the solo part to the Schwanendreher on the train on the
way to the premiere and played it without having actually practised it.
Having perofrmed and recorded the Trio on Heckelphone and knowing that
there are less than 100 of them in the world now ( I don't know how many
there were at the time of the writing of the Trio) I seriously doubt that
he would have had access to one for sufficient amount of time to learn it
well enough to play it. Perhaps he figured that, the fingerings being
similar to oboe, and presumably being able to play the oboe, he could
have managed it. We'll never know. But if it was megalomania on his
part, let's be grateful that he thought he could play all these things,
otherwise we would not have many of these marvelous works today.

Arthur Grossman, Professor Emeritus
Bassoon, Heckelphone and Contrabassoon
School of Music
Box 353450
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3450

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, shannonh (Shannon Hill) wrote:

> OK, now that we have the Brahms question answered ("The recording was made by Freddy Vogelgesang..."), that reminds me: Wasn't Paul Hindemith (primarily a violinist/violist) reputed to be able to play the solo parts of many of the various concertos and sonatas he composed? Does anyone know more detail? I can't seem to lay my hands on verification right now, though I've always had it in the back of my head that this was so...
>
> - Shannon Hill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Katz [mailto:jimkatz@-----.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:44 AM
> To: doublereed-l@-----.edu
> Subject: [DR-L] re. Brahms query
>
>
>
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I am trying to locate the name of the remarkable American musician who
> > recorded
> > the Brahms Trio for Clarinet, Horn and Piano by superimposing tracks of
> > himself
> > playing all 3 instruments.
> >
> > Does anyone have any information and his name, please?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Jennifer
>
> Now if YOU were contemplating such a project I bet it would be something
> like Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Jennifer playing all parts - and all on the
> oboe d'amore!
>
> Sorry, I don't know the artist you are seeking.
>
> Jim
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