Klarinet Archive - Posting 000526.txt from 1996/01

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Abduction arrangement
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 08:02:45 -0500

David Ross suggests that an arrangement for wind octet of Mozart's
opera "Abduction from the Seraglio" is now suggested to have been made
by a man named Rosiniack, an oboe player from the period who worked
in and around Donaueschingen where the particular arrangement was
discovered by Bastiaan Blomhert.

David, if what you say is correct, I do not know of it but am most
anxious to go directly to the source of your information. Tell me
where you heard or read it, please.

I also know of three arrangements of this music, two for traditional
wind octet, and the third for one with English horns in place of
clarinets. One of the two with clarinets is published by Musica Rara
(from a set of parts that I lent to Hymie Voxman, the editor of the
MR publication), and the other, the BIG one, the one we are discussing,
is the discovery of Blomhert and the recorded one you spoke of.

I must admit that I am not as current in harmoniemusik as I once was,
but unless there has been a significant discovery about the author of
that work that I missed, Blomhert was, as recently as about a year
or so ago, pushing that arrangement as Mozart's own.

Please tell me where you got the news that you suggested about that
arrangement. I am more interested than you could possibly think.

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