Klarinet Archive - Posting 001178.txt from 1998/07

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart's choice of instruments
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:02:59 -0400

Well --- it seems now that the D major concerto was actually the *last* to
be written.
Roger Shilcock

On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Mitch Bassman wrote:

> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:44:47 -0400
> From: Mitch Bassman <mbassman@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Mozart's choice of instruments
>
> Just to set the record straight,
>
> At 10:02 AM 7/26/98 EDT, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
> >Several things speak against it. For example, when Mozart used
> >a French horn (or horns) in a prominent position, the piece generally
> >wound up in E-flat because that was the best tuning crook for horns.
> >For example, the wind octets K. 375 and K. 388 (in c minor which is
> >essentially E-flat major since it is the relative minor of E-flat
> >major), the piano wind quintet, K. 452, and all four horn concerti.
>
> I agree with everything you said in this message, Dan, except for the final
> four words of the cited paragraph. My memory may be wrong (I'm in my office
> without access to my music library), but years of listening to my brother
> play Mozart on his horn during the early 1960s make me reasonably certain
> that the Number 1 horn concerto is in D Major. Numbers 2, 3, and 4, plus
> the Concert Rondo are in E-flat. Perhaps Mozart learned something after he
> wrote No. 1 in D. Nu?
>
> Mitch Bassman
> Burke, Virginia, USA
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