Klarinet Archive - Posting 000870.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Mendelssohn Sonata
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:36:32 -0400

I am assuming that Jerry is referring to the Eb Sonata.....there are more
than one. I have a photocopy of the manuscript if you are interested....I
premiered a new edition (Cooper) at our Mendelssohn Festival last spring
with Ursula Duetchler on pinaoforte (by the way....the pianoforte is a
nice color to have!), and I have an edition based on the manuscript
photocopy. Michael Cooper is our musicologist at Illinois Wesleyan
University and is a respected Mendelssohn scholar....you may contact him
at:

mcooper@-----.edu

I suggest you do so.....you will get some wonderful information!

Roger Garrett

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 Jrykorten@-----.com wrote:

> I've recently been taken with the Mendelssohn Sonata. That beautiful Andante
> movement!
>
> But alas I don't know the history behind this piece. I was totally lost when
> I tried to follow Levin/Neidich's version with the score.
>
> Then I read the intro to my edition (MCA) wherein it is said "It was
> necessary to make a few minor cuts in each movement in order to achieve a
> certain balance of form"
>
> !!!!AAAHHHH!!!
>
> I do prefer to hear the composer's idea of what he thought was balanced and
> what is not. Actually having someone else balance a work of art - 100 years
> later - unbalances me!
>
> In the piano literature I can usually go to Henle and find a good "urtext"
> version that is close to what the composer wrote. Is there such a version of
> the Mendelssohn Sonata for clarinet? I'm told by the folks at Frank's music
> that this is the only version left.
>
> Anybody know how Levin/Neidich came up with their version (aside from
> improv's there are major sections in their version that do not even show on
> mine).
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jerry Korten
> NYC
>
>