Klarinet Archive - Posting 000744.txt from 1998/07

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] About the Mozart concerto on B-flat clarinet
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 07:53:22 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.26
> Subj: Re: [kl] About the Mozart concerto on B-flat clarinet

> Once again I find myself in agreement with you Dan. Since I might be
> performing this work soon, do you think you could recommend an edition that
> has a piano reduction compatible with A Clarient? While I must admit that I
> have only begun looking, I haven't been able to find one off-hand.
>
> Thank you!

As I indicated in an earlier post, there are no authoritative editions
of the work because the autograph has been missing since about 1800.
But just ask your music supplier to make sure that you get one in
the key of A major and not B-flat major and that should get you a
workable edition.

>
> Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
>
> > Someone took exception to someone's view (maybe mine) that playing the
> > Mozart concerto on a B-flat clarinet was not necessarily the best thing
> > to do for the work. And the reaction was that pitch standards have
> > changed so much that it doesn't really matter that much.
> >
> > I don't have the note in front of me so forgive me if I have not
> > gotten the essence correctly.
> >
> > I think that such an attitude is class A doo doo.
> >
>
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> Craig Earl Countryman
> cegc@-----.net
> http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/YPP/Craig.html
> http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1711/
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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