Klarinet Archive - Posting 000680.txt from 1998/07

From: "Mr. Sheim" <fsheim@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Brahms' CL works
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:41:15 -0400

Spooky- Saint Saens Sonata in 1922 had the same effect!

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

At 08:55 AM 7/21/98 -0700, you wrote:
>The problem, it seems, is that as soon as you write something good for
>clarinet you die. I believe that K.622 was the last piece Mozart finished
>before he croaked (he did leave other unfinished works). Brahms--3 cool
>pieces and the long last goodbye. Nielsen--1 concerto, soon dead.
>
>What's so lethal about the clarinet?
>
>kjf
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Maestro645@-----.com]
>Sent: Monday, July 20, 1998 9:00 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Brahms' cl works
>
>
>In a message dated 7/20/98 8:45:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>EbKlarinet@-----.com (Elise) writes:
>
><< Hi all! Thank God Brahms wrote his clarinet works at the end of his
> life--that's why they're so deep, so profound. He brought his years of
> compostitional craft to bear on these wonderful four works, just like
>Mozart
> did with the Concerto. Just compare the Mozart bassoon concerto, K. 191, an
> early work, with the clarinet concerto, K. 622, a very late work, and
>you'll
> see what I mean.
> >>
>
>Good point, Elise! Even though the clarinet concerto is much more mature
>than
>the bassoon concerto, you have to admit even the bassoon concerto, although
>very youthful, is still very masterfully created. The genius never changed,
>just the maturity level.
>Chris Hoffman
>
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