Klarinet Archive - Posting 000483.txt from 1996/04

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Jennifer Hefferlin and K. 622 redux
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:57:35 -0400

Neil,
I can't speak to the second point you wrote about because as far
as I hears, there is no surviving sketch of THAT piece either but as for
the first bit about Constanza losing the music at a picnic, that's a
bubbe meisse (grandmother's tale). Mozart was quite meticulous about
caring for his scores so they could be published. Indeed, Costanza had good
reason to look after his scores. She had lots of them published after he
died to try to support the family. In the case of the concerto, I'll lay
good odds that there never was an actual full score - just a set of parts,
since it was the custom at the time for the concert master to lead the
orchestra from his own part (conductors were virtually unheard of except
for operas). So Stadler really did have probably the
only authoritative copy of the clarinet part. And the shmuck lost it.

Fred Jacobowitz
Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory

On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Neil Leupold wrote:

> Dan mentions that Stadler lost the autograph to K.622. Is that correct?
> I'd heard it was lost at a picnic because whoever had it (Constanze?)
> left it behind (inside a picnic basket). What's the story?
>
> I also remember reading that K. 622, when it was just a twinkle in
> Mozart's eye, was originally conceived for basset horn in G, but then
> revised by the composer. If that's the case, then all this hoopla about
> how to play it correctly is a more-than-mild farce because everybody's
> playing it on the wrong instrument in the first place -- especially if
> they're playing it on soprano clarinet! Again, what's the story?
>
> Neil
>

   
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