Klarinet Archive - Posting 000764.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 12:37:45 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.13
> Subj: Re: [kl] About the Mozart concerto on B-flat clarinet

> In a message dated 7/21/98 9:58:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time, merlinw@-----.ca
> writes:
>
> << What's even more interesting to me is the fact that Mozart wrote a concerto
> for oboe (K. 314) , then TRANSPOSED the same piece of music and relabelled it
> a flute concerto. >>
> Wasn't it the other way around? Flute Concerto in D, K. 314 then transposed
> to C for oboe? That's what I was lead under the impression of. They are both
> labeled K.314. Not that it really matters, I just want to get my facts
> straight.

No. The oboe concerto was written first but lost. Then the flute concerto
was derived from it. It was taken and recreated backwards to produce the
oboe concerto that we now know. But the oboe work was first.

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