Klarinet Archive - Posting 000594.txt from 1997/04

From: Lord Rob <rteitelbaum@-----.EDU>
Subj: RE: Zemlinsky Trio
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 16:02:23 -0400

>After the performance, someone asked me if it was
>common for chamber music to require both A and B flat clarinets. I said I
>thought it was unusual. Stravinsky aside, are there other chamber music
>pieces that require both?

Yes, there's a rather famous one that requires both: Bartok's Contrasts. Of
course, you *could* play the first 2 movements on Bb (the edition in my
school's music library even includes both parts, just in case), but it's far
more difficult, IMHO. (This is, of course, the same piece that requires 2
separate *violins*!)

Also, the Hindemith Quintet requires both. Well, actually, the second
instrument is "Klarinette in Es", which I assume is A and not C clarinet.

Those are two that come to mind. But as near as I can figure, both clarinets
were not used in the same chamber music piece until the modern era, since
I can't think of any pre-modern example of this.

Rob Teitelbaum
Claremont McKenna College

   
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