Klarinet Archive - Posting 000746.txt from 1998/01
From: Michael Bryant <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Karl Stamitz's Clarinet Concertos
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:51:15 -0500
Those interested in persuing the identification of Karl Stamitz's clarinet
concertos to a reasonably satisfactory conclusion might like to consult John
Newhill's article "The Contribution of the Mannheim School to Clarinet
Literature", The Music Review, May 1979. He lists 10 concertos, two
concertanti originally including clarinet and 17 quartets for clarinet and
strings.
He refers to Helmut Boese's Die Klarinette als Soloinstrument in der Musik
der Mannheim Schule, Dresden 1940 and also Robert Titus's thesis "The Solo
Music for the Clarinet in the 18th Century", Iowa 1962.
He includes incipits that I cannot reproduce here. Stamitz probably wrote
the concerts over a period of 26 years. 1, 2, and 3 were probably written
before he went to Mannheim.
No 1 "The Darmstadt" E flat. MS was at Darmstadt but destroyed by RAF
bombing. Copy retained by Boese and published by Hofmeister 1956. Boese's
date for 1-2 : late 1760s
No2 in B flat. MS in Darmstadt destroyed, copies with Boese and Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris No modern edition in 1979, but Jerome Bunke did a PhD
thesis on it New York 1971.
No 3 in B flat. MS in Vienna National Library. Modern editions by Peters
(1957) and IMC c.1969. Probably his best know clarinet concerto. Recorded
many times. Boese dated concertos 3-7 as 1770s
No 4 in F. For clarinet in C. Copy of the print by Seiber at the BN in
Paris. Published Editio Musica Budapest 1970 and by Schott 1971 Schott call
it No 1!
Concerto in E flat (Boese No 5) at the BN in Paris. This is the same as
Concerto No 1 by Ernst Eichner, (Breitkopf catologue 1781). Published as
Stamitz by Seiber
No 5 (Boese No 6) in B flat published by Seiber as No 3 in c.1778. Listed by
Breitkopf in 1781.Copy at the BN in Paris.
No 6 (Boese No 7) in B flat This Seiber's No 5 was destoyed at Darmstadt in
the war. Boese has a microfilm. There is an incomplete set of parts at the
University of Wroclaw in Poland. Schloss Harburg in Bavaria has an oboe
transcription of it (a later arrangement). Listed by Breitkopf in 1781 and
republished for oboe by Simrock in 1963 and Breitkopf in 1970.
No 7 (Boese No 8) in B flat. MS in Vienna. Seiber's edition of 1779 is in
the BN Paris. Only modern edition by Linda Barnhart, San Diego University
1978
No 8 (Boese No 9) in E flat. Published by Sikorksi in 1953 from the MS at
Thurn und Taxissche, Regensburg.
No 9 (Boese No 10) in B flat Published by Sikorski at No 10 in 1958 from the
MS in Vienna. There is also a set of parts in Prague. In Breitkopf 1781
catalogue it also appears as a Flute Concerto in C.
No 10 (Boese No 11) in E flat MS in Vienna. This was the basis of the 1968
edition by Schirmer. A note on the MS suggests that it was a collaboration
between Josef Beer and Stamitz. Boese and Newhill agree with this. The
opening is quite unlike Stamitz, while the themes of the last two movement
are familiar. Kratochvil discounted the Stamitz attribution altogether in
1968. The concerto was published in Potsdam in c 1793. The only know copy of
the printed edition is in private hand in Brno.
Michael@-----.uk
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