Klarinet Archive - Posting 000272.txt from 1995/12

From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns%cl.cam.ac.uk@-----.BITNET>
Subj: Re: Handel Messiah???????
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 05:02:37 -0500

> Is there an arrangement other than the original that has
> clarinet parts? I don't believe that Handel had a clarinet to write for.
> Maybe I'm getting my music history mixed up, but I didn't think the
> clarinet was used much until Mozart. Maybe some scholars could clarify.

Well, there's a Mozart `orchestration' that Beethoven famously said it
didn't need. (I've heard it professionally performed on a few
occasions, and it's not bad, though not much like Handel apart from
the tunes.)

R