Klarinet Archive - Posting 000305.txt from 1998/02

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: Cadenza Books???
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 14:49:34 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.58
> Subj: Cadenza Books???

> Hi 8-)
>
> I was wondering if there were any Cadenza Books on the market for the main
> standard clarinet Concertos like there are for violin concertos etc...??? Like
> cadenzas that famous and legendary clarinetists wrote themselves for
> performance instead of using let's say the Bermann's ones for Weber repertoire
> and are compiled in a book?...
>
> Maybe I can find something in the Archives but since I'm not such a wizz-kid
> on computer, I don't know YET how I can make my way until there...
>
> Thank you all in advance for your comments or/and answers,
> Elizabeth

Good question Elizabeth. I don't think I have ever seen a book
with cadenzas for clarinet but each edition of the Weber concerti,
for example, may give several different options and even identify
who created that particular cadenza.

But here there is a caveat. You must be careful when you play a
cadenza that the composer is really asking for a cadenza. On this
list, which has many, many fine clarinetists and good scholars, I
will often see someone asking about "the cadenza in the Mozart
concerto." But there is no cadenza in the Mozart concerto, there
never has been, and attempts to put one in at the traditional places
often lead to catastrophes such as that suggested by Ibert, a monster
of a cadenza fully 10 minutes long in place where none was requested.

So your first job is to understand exactly what technical mechanism
the composer uses to invite you to play a cadenza. The printing of
the text "Cadenza" in any printed copy of any work, is not
sufficiently reliable. You have to know how to recognize the
invitiation. It is built into the music and its presence is
unmistakable. So is the absence of the invitation (as in the
three places in the Mozart concerto that most people talk about).

So figure it out. Look at the Weber concerti. Look at the Mozart
concerto. What is different about the invitations?

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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