Klarinet Archive - Posting 000612.txt from 1997/01

From: "David B. Niethamer" <niethamer@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Poulenc
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:56:53 -0500

>GREG BAKER wrote:
>>
>> I am planning to do the Poulenc clarinet and piano sonata for a half-recital
>> ... 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?
>>
and Floyd Williams responded:
>
>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.

I have the third edition, copyright 1963 (they must have gone through the
first two *very* quickly!), with the "right" notes in it. But I've always
wondered where the manuscript is - does anyone know? What did Dobree/King
work from? I also dispute the added dynamics on the 1st mvt recap -
Poulenc left the dynamic all "piano" in the earlier editions, and it
makes more sense to me.

I'm interested in this quite a bit. On what must have been the first
recording, there's a program note that speaks to the issue of the
dedication of the oboe and the clarinet sonatas, and shows them to be
reversed in the published editions. This makes sense to me too. But I
asked this question on the list some time ago, and got zero response.
Anyone know?

So I ask again - where is Poulenc's manuscript?

David

David Niethamer
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