Klarinet Archive - Posting 000542.txt from 1997/01

From: Floyd Williams <F.Williams@-----.au>
Subj: Re: Poulenc
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 03:22:00 -0500

GREG BAKER wrote:
>
> I am planning to do the Poulenc clarinet and piano sonata for a half-recital
> (which I am spliting with a tuba player!). The title page says something about
> ambiguities in the score. Just out of historical curiosity, did the Poulenc
> sonata ever make it to the "Editions and Misprints" column in the ICA Clarinet
> journal?
>
> [By the way, there IS a piece for clarinet and tuba, which is what inspired
the
> recital idea in the first place. It's by Peter (PDQ Bach) Schickele, but is
one
> of Schickele's own compositions.]
>
> Besides the Poulenc, I am planning to do either the Adagio from the Mozart
> concerto (in memory of Robert Marcellus), or the Finzi Bagatelles.
>
> Anyway, I would really appreciate any info I could get on the Poulenc matter.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Clarinetically (is that a word???) yours,
>
> Greg Baker

Greg,re the Poulenc, I heard a masterclass by Paul Meyer in 1995, and he
clearly referred to notes in the later editions of the Sonata as
"wrong". My inference was that the French, at least, seem to think the
first edition is the "right " one, and not the later changes made by
Thea King and Georgina Dobree.

Regards,
Floyd Williams
Brisbane, Australia