Klarinet Archive - Posting 000159.txt from 1996/04

From: Stan Geidel <00smgeidel@-----.EDU>
Subj: Szell, Marcellus, tonguing, and Mozart
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 20:04:43 -0500

Dan Leeson wrote:
>In the Gran Partitta, variations movement, there is a killer second
>clarinet part that is almost always slurred despite the fact that Mozart
>puts no slurs in the music, though all the surrounding text is very
>precisely indicated. The passage is a blindingly difficult series of
>Alberti bass accompaniment figures in 32-nd notes.>
>
>I do not know what Mozart meant by these strange and very difficult
>places.