Klarinet Archive - Posting 000653.txt from 1997/01

From: thehat@-----.org
Subj: Re: which clarinet?
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:02:34 -0500

In a message dated 01-28-97 INTERNET: niethamer=URVAX wrote to ** ALL **:
In> David Hattner opines that Brahms made the A clarinet change at the
In> behest of a clarinetist of the time. If so, all due respect to David,
In> I'd like to know that there's a score that reflects this before/after
In> event, or a letter from Brahms that says "OK, so you can't play in B
In> Major, so play it on the A clarinet!". It's a good hypothesis, but
In> *only* a hypothesis. OTOH, better to be comfortable by avoiding the
In> switch than to miss notes in a solo.

David. Get the Dover edition of the four Brahms Symphonies. The editor
writes about this very point! That is where my information comes from. My
"opinion" is that the change was suggested by a clarinetist. That a change
was made from Brahms original thought is, indeed, a fact.

David Hattner
clarinetist-at-large
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