Klarinet Archive - Posting 000515.txt from 1995/01

From: "The Knights who Say..." <malaga@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Edgar Pearlstein's inquiry about a G clarinet
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 23:45:17 -0500

On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> In fact, it is the instrument for which Mozart originally created the
> concerto that turned out to be K. 622. The surviving autograph fragment
> is for basset horn in g.

Are you sure? I was told (and I've seen a facsimile of the autograph,
though I didn't notice a key signature) that it was written for a
Clarinet in A with a low C attachment, and that it was called a Basset
Clarinet. I know that the surviving autograph doesn't go to low C, but
it has been suggested that some parts in the second and especially in the
third movement have some low stuff (sub-E). This would make sense
musically in the piece, due to the sometimes-disrupted lines in any
current "standard" edition.

Adam Smith
malaga@-----.edu