Klarinet Archive - Posting 000245.txt from 1994/10

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: STADLER - PART 4
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 13:00:29 -0400

Part 3 consisted only of footnotes. Here I continue with the text that
was in Parts 1 and 2.

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By November, Stadler had travelled on to Hamburg. The 29 November 1794 edition
of the "Staats- und Gelehrte Zeitung des Hamburgischen unpartheyischen
Correspondenten" announced a concert that same evening,Saturday, to be given by
'Herr Stadler' in that city's "Schauspielhaus". The article reads: "It is
noted that Madame Beschert will sing an Aria by Mozart with obligato clarinet
['Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio' from 'La Clemenza di Tito', K. 621, perhaps?]
and Herr Rau [will sing] an Aria by [Giovanni] Paesiello [1740-1816]. The
well-known Wurtemberg Concertmaster, Herr [Jakob] Scheller, will play a
Concerto and [some] Variations on the violin. Herr Lauska will play a Trio by
Mozart with obligato clarinet and viola. Starting time is 6 o'clock and
tickets are available at the performance". This performance by Stadler of the
Mozart Clarinet Trio has not - to the author's knowledge - been previously
documented.

The next month, a Supplement to the "Hamburgischen unpartheyischen
Correspondenten" of Friday, 19 December 1794, contained this concert notice.
"On Saturday, the 20th, Herr Stadler, Royal and Imperial Chamber Musician and
Herr Scheller, Ducal Wurtemberg Capellmeister will give (with necessary
permission) a grand instrumental and vocal concert. First he himself [Stadler]
will be heard in various sought-after pieces on the clarinet and Herr Scheller
on the violin. Both musicians have proven their skill to great applause. Herr
Scheller, who through his playing takes care to put his listeners in high
spirits, will also play, in addition to a Violin Concerto and some Variations,
a piece in which he produces with great likeness the sound of the concertina
through a curious preparation of his instrument, and will close with a few
humorous pieces. The artist is equally glorious whether he, through his
playing, moves his listeners to gaiety or to tenderness [of feeling]".

The next year found Stadler performing in Hannover, presumably on his way home.
The "Hannover'sche Anzeigen" of Monday, 7 September 1795, announced Stadler's
upcoming concert of Thursday, 10 September: "The undersigned [Anton Stadler]
will have the honor to give a vocal and instrumental concert in the
Londonschenkensaale [a chamber music room in the Londonschenke Hotel] on
Thursday, the 10th [of September] and on a clarinet he himself invented, which
is differentiated otherwise from the normal [clarinet] by means of another
construction, making possible a softer tone and also a compass of four full
octaves. In addition, the undersigned will play some Variations on a basset
horn which he himself also altered. He recommends himself to all - respected
connoisseurs and music lovers alike - in the hope of furnishing a venerable
public with enjoyment here, as well as in other countries. The proposed
musical pieces will be made known through a special announcement. The
subscription price is 12 ggr. [Gute Groschen], at the door 16 ggr. and it will
begin at 5:40". (footnote 17)

Footnote 17: Dr. med. Georg Fischer writes in his "Musik in Hannover", Hannover
-Leipzig 1903, p. 59, that Stadler was in Hannover performing "some variations
on the popular song 'Freut euch des Lebens' on an improved clarinet of his own
invention." in 1791, not 1794. This is surely an error, because in October of
1791, Stadler was in Prague and, by January of 1792, had travelled to Berlin;
Hannover would have been a considerable distance out of the way. After triumph
in Prague in the second performance of "La clemenza di Tito", and 16 October
performance, it is most probably Stadler would have headed straight for another
large musical center, such as Berlin, without any side trips (see Mozart's
letter of 7 October 1791 noted above, "Meanwhile, I have had a letter which
Stadler sent me from Prague ... Cries of 'Bravo' were shoulted at Stodla
[Bohemian pronunciation] from the balcony and even from the orchestra - 'What a
miracle for Bohemia!' But indeed I did my very best [emphasis added]".

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End of PART 4

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