Klarinet Archive - Posting 000296.txt from 1994/12

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Chris Zello's comments on the Mozart Concertante
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 17:22:39 -0500

Chris, it is a complicated story and I want to give you an intelligent,
well-thought-out answer. I will do so but it will take time to organize
the whole story effectively, about an hour or so off line and then
I'll upload it and send it in. But the bottom line is that Mozart
never wrote a concertante with a clarinet and there are extremely
serious reservations about the authenticity of the work that we have
happily played for the last 100 years.

The work has been put back into a form that eliminates the clarinet and
replaces it with a flute (but of course they don't play the same parts -
there is a lot more to do than this) but even this is very educated
scholarship. The fact is that we have no idea what happened to the original
work that Mozart wrote in 1778.

Long story coming up. It will have so many footnotes that I will have
a little boy sitting at my feet to read them!!!

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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