Klarinet Archive - Posting 001203.txt from 1998/07

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart and the right clarinet
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:42:50 -0400

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Janet McNaught wrote:

> Yes - he used all three. Although I think it was difficult to hear
> differences among the three, the variation in "tonal colour" over the range
> of any of these was really notable. And Hoeprich actually contends that
> Mozart was aware of this - that some notes on these instruments are
> especially difficult to voice clearly, and that to plague Stadler, he
> intentionally wrote ackward passages using these notes as a sort of joke.
> Passages which would not be ackward, or would at least not be the same on a
> clarinet in another key. So Hoeprich certainly believes that Mozart was well
> aware of the tonal colour of the instrument, and intentionally wrote to use
> that colour.

This is great stuff.......I missed all of this.....I must have missed more
than I thought from the lecture/recital.

Roger Garrett
IWU

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