Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 1998/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Hindemith Quintet
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 12:14:39 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig E. G. Countryman <cegc@-----.net>
Date: Thursday, January 01, 1998 9:45 AM
Subject: Hindemith Quintet

>Good morning and Happy New Year everyone!! My question this morning is
>this: in the November/December edition of the Clarinet Gregory Barrett
>reviews a CD that includes some of Hindemith's clarinet repertoire. He
>also mentions that the third movement of Hindemith's Clarinet Qunitet is
>written for Eb Clarinet. I checked the sneezy database and it gave the
>following listing:
>
>Composer : Hindemith,Paul (1895-1963)
>Title : Quintet, Op. 30
>Type : Quintet
>Composer's Sex : Male
>Date :
>Instrumentation : clarinet, violin, violin, viola, cello
>Arranger :
>Publisher : Schott , Associated Music Publishers
>Grade :
>Comments : Clarinet and String Quartet
>
>I assume this is the same work, as this was the only Hindemith Quintet I
>know of. Does anyone know if the edition by this publisher leaves the
>third movement written for Eb Clarinet do the transpose it for Bb?
>Also, are there any other editions that have the part written for Eb?
>
Yes, the Schott edition (#4528) gives the clarinet part 3rd movement in Eb
and the rest of the piece is for clarinet in Bb. I don't know for certain,
but I'd suspect that this is the only edition of the piece available.

Karl

   
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