Klarinet Archive - Posting 000670.txt from 1998/07

From: <Maestro645@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: The Mozart concerto
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:41:05 -0400

In a message dated 7/21/98 6:46:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
clarinet@-----.net writes:

<< I haven't heard any of the Mozart woodwind concerti played on saxophone
either, but years ago I spent my two years as a draftee in the Army playing
in a 28-piece post band. One day I heard the familiar opening of the
Mozart bassoon concerto, *on trombone*. I casually asked, "what are you
playing". He said it was the Mozart trombone concerto and showed me the
music to prove it - it really was titled as the Mozart bassoon concerto! >>

I recently accompanied a senior trombonist on this piece for solo/ensemble.
It is a very clever rendition. And it is effective. Unless you know the
bassoon concerto, you could have sworn that Mozart wrote a trombone concerto.
A few notes are taken up the octave (like Bb below the bass clef staff), and a
couple times notes in a 16th note run are taken out (the second note in the
first series of 16ths) so the trombonist can breathe. Other than that, it is
the original edition.
Mozart wrote such lovely woodwind, french horn, piano, and violin concertos?
I wonder why he never did other brass concerti, and low string concerti?
Chris Hoffman

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