Klarinet Archive - Posting 000598.txt from 1997/04

From: julia.heinen@-----.edu (Julia Heinen)
Subj: RE: Zemlinsky Trio
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:48:26 -0400

Sorry, I forgot to include this in the last message.

>>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.

Schubert Octet is clarinet in B-flat except for mov. 5 which is clarinet in C.
>
>Rob Teitelbaum
>Claremont McKenna College

Dr. Julia M. Heinen
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