Klarinet Archive - Posting 000144.txt from 1997/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Mozart concerto/concerti
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:42:31 -0400

It is not strictly valid to say that K.622 was "written for basset
clarinet", as no autograph exists of a version for this instrument. K.621b
is around 199 bars of ms. including a solo part for G basset horn and (I
think - no books with me) a sketch of an accompaniment. I think this lives
somewhere in Switzerland; Dan Leeson (and others) will know just where.
It is strongly *inferred* that the lost predecessor of K.622 was written
for basset clarinet in A, from:
1) Stadler had at least one such instrument (and probably a B flat
example too), which he was well known for using;
2) Several peculiar awkwardnesses of the solo part in K.622 could be
explained if the passages had been written an octave lower, for an
instrument with an extension to written low C.
(and probably other stuff too).
Dan Leeson of course knows much more than this. Try to get hold of the
Cambridge Companion to the Mozart Clarinet Concerto.
(It's time I re-read my copy, I think ...)
Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Bill Edinger wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:25:49 -0400
> From: Bill Edinger <wde1@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: Klarinet list <klarinet@-----.us>
> Subject: Mozart concerto/concerti
>
> Could someone please clear up a point of confusion that has developed for
> me on the Mozart "Concerto?" Is the one he wrote for Basset clarinet (K
> 622, which is the familiar one) the same as, similar to, or completely
> different from the concerto for basset horn (which Dan Leeson noted as
> being K 621b)? Was one an earlier version of the other? Thanks,
>
> Bill Edinger
>
>
>