Klarinet Archive - Posting 000152.txt from 1996/05

From: C&K Hill <hutchill@-----.AU>
Subj: Re: Penance!!!
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 10:30:50 -0400

Dear Dan,

The Schindelmeisser concerto was published by Musica Rara in an edition with
piano reduction. It has been recorded By Dieter Koecker, Waldemar Wandel and
two of Kloecker's students (Guido Steir or Michael Heitzler and Heide Huber
I think). The work also gets a mention in Jo Rees- Davies' chapter on the
development of the clarinet repertoire in the new "Cambridge Companion to
the Clarinet" edited by Colin Lawson. (an excellent book, incidentally).
That should be enough convincing references to claim your prize.

There are plenty of Mc Donalds "restaurants" in Melbourne if you would like
to make the trip!

Craig Hill,
Melbourne Symphony, Australia

>Because I screwed up so badly with Samuel Taylor Coleridge vs Samuel Coleridge
>Taylor, I will make a gift to all the members of this group by mentioning that
>in this months donation of my clarinet music collection is one of the rarest
>and most delightful works for clarinet I ever heard. And if anyone out there
>can say (with truth, honesty, cross-your-heart, etc.) that you know of this
>work, I will buy that person a 1/4 pounder with cheese, a large order of fries,
>and a diet coke.
>
>I am donating the complete orchestral parts, plus the four solo parts, plus
>the conductor's score to the concerto for 4 clarinets and orchestra by
>Ludwig Schindelmeisser, a contemporary of Beethoven. I know you never heard
>of him, but that is not necessarily a condemnation.
>
>It is a WONDERFUL work and I offer this information as penance for mixing
>up Coleridge with Taylor (or was it Taylor with Coleridge, I forget).
>
>This work has special meaning for me because the first time I heard it,
>I fell so in love with it that I wrote my very first article about the
>clarinet and its repertoire. Has to be 25 years ago. And it was damn near
>impossible to locate the full orchestral parts.
>
>I think that I probably have the only set in the US, and in a few weeks it
>will be at the clarinet library. Cost me a fortune, too.
>
>Is that enough penance or do I have to tell you about the quintet for
>bass clarinet and string quartet, too?
>
>
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>Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
>(leeson@-----.edu)
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>
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