Klarinet Archive - Posting 000752.txt from 1997/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Re Grand Duo Concertant written for ?
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 04:10:18 -0400

I think we already know this is NOT so - it was written for Hermstedt and
Weber himself.
Roger Shilcock

On Tue, 27 May 1997 LSClarinet@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 14:57:58 -0400 (EDT)
> From: LSClarinet@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: stanalan@-----.edu
> Cc: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re Grand Duo Concertant written for ?
>
> Alan,
>
> Weber wrote the Grand Duo Concertante for Heinrich Baermann. The second and
> third movements were written first, and were performed by Weber himself with
> Baermann at a public concert in Munich in 1815. A year later Weber added the
> first movement.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Lea
>
> On Mon, 26 May 1997 22:57:55 -0600 you wrote:
> Having recently purchased a new edition of von Weber's _Grand Duo
> Concertante, Op. 48_ (edited by Pamela Weston - Fentone publisher - 1989
> - upon the bicentenary of Weber's birth) and upon reading the Forward,
> the question, for whom did Weber write this work, is another of those
> perhaps unanswerable mysteries.
> Anyone out there that would render a definitive answer for Klarinet
> readers?
> --
>