Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 1994/10

From: "Roger J. Shilcock" <mlfl@-----.UK>
Subj: Anton Stadler' clarinet?
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 06:20:59 -0400

Before anything else - I obviously got Hoeperich's name AND nationality wrong
(he didn't look American). Rendell says that the period of popularity of the
clarinette d'amour was ca. 1750-1820, which nicely covers Stadler's lifetime,
so he would certainly have known about the thing. If a clarinettist had been in
the audience at that Vilnius concert, he would have known what the instrument
was immediately, but would an artist or musical journalist (if they could be
said to have existed then)? However, Mr. Hoeperich seems to have been
convinced by the evidence for its being a basset clarinet, so maybe it's pretty
good. If there has been any more EMail on this since Cary Karp's first
contribution, I haven't read it yet, by the way.
Roger Shilcock