Klarinet Archive - Posting 000137.txt from 1995/12

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: The Mozart Concerto
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 17:23:40 -0500

At 12:51 PM 12/6/95, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

>Mozart first began what became the clarinet concerto by drafting
>a work for basset horn in G and orchestra. The autograph survives
>and I have a copy of it. It shows the very same fundamental work
>that we know today as the concerto, K. 622 though it is a sketch and
>has only an architecture established with hardly any detail.
>
>Somewhere around measure 88, he had to have changed his mind because,
>suddenly the pieces switches to concert A major with what was the
>basset horn in G now playing in written C major. Then the autograph
>breaks off a dozen or so measures later.

Dan I remember having seen the basset horn fragment in G quite a while
back, and I recall that the first movement was written out to something
around measure 190. Is my memory playing tricks on me?

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Jonathan Cohler
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