Klarinet Archive - Posting 000434.txt from 1996/06

From: C&K Hill <hutchill@-----.AU>
Subj: kozeluch quartet
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 23:09:21 -0400

Re: Kozeluch quartet. Score now available.

Those of you who follow the recordings of Dieter Kloecker may know of an
interesting recording titled "Quartetto Concertant"; it contains quartets
for B flat clarinet and string trio by Leopold Kozeluch, Peter von Winter
and Bernhard Crusell. (Bayer Records- BR 100 065 CD)

The von Winter and Crusell works have been readily available for years; when
Kloecker made his recording the Kozeluch was - dare I say it- unknown.
(someone is bound to correct me!) Kloecker's notes refer to an "autograph"
dated 8.12.1790 but without giving a location - perhaps one of the libraries
in Vienna or perhaps even from his own collection. This work was printed in
1801 by Sieber as the third in a series of string quartets.

I did see that Musica Rara was listing the Kozeluch in one of their more
recent catalogues, without an edition number, indicating that it was
somewhere in the pipeline. I don't know whether this publication has gone ahead.

In any case, the whole series of quartets has now been published in the
string quartet version, in a excellent scholarly edition by Roger Hickman.
Anyone wanting to play this worthwhile work can simply reconstruct the
clarinet part from the first violin part using Kloecker's recording as a
guide. Here are the details of the publication:

AUTHOR Kozeluch, Leopold, 1747-1818.
UNIF TITLE Quartets, strings.
TITLE Six string quartets, opus 32 and opus 33 [music] / Leopold
Kozeluch ; edited by Roger Hickman.
PUBLISHED Madison : A-R Editions, c1994.
PHYS DESC 1 score (xiv, 262 p.) ; 31 cm.
SERIES Recent researches in the music of the Classical Era, 0147-0086 ;
v. 42.

Happy playing..

Craig Hill
Fax: + 61 3 9532 9703