Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 1998/08

From: hutchill@-----.net
Subj: [kl] Baermann Clarinet School
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:57:00 -0400

Doe anyone have a copy of the original edition of the Carl Baermann
"Clarinet School?"

I have been studying the revised version by Gustave Langenus (in English -
does anyone know if Langenus actually made the translation himself?) which
was published by Carl Fischer early this century. Also there is a revised
edition by Prof. Oscar Schubert originally published in 1917 by Johann
Andre, and recently reprinted.

Both depart substantially from the original edition - the edition by Carl
Fischer attempting to make the method applicable for the USA and the Boehm-
system clarinet; the Andre edition, still in German, but revised to take
into account the new developments of Oskar Oehler. In both editions
Baermann's fingering indications were changed to take into account the new
fingering systems in use. There is also an interesting commentary on every
note of the clarinet - which notes have particular problems with regard to
intonation, colour, alternative fingerings etc. This section is entirely
absent in the Langenus version; Prof. Schubert revised it for the Oehler
clarinet in his edition but left much of the original intact.

Any help locating a copy of the original edition would be appreciated.

Incidentally has anyone ever noticed that the Carl Fisher editions of the
Baermann and Lazarus tutors contain several identical and many nearly
identical passages in the sections on the "rudiments of music"? This section
in the (Fischer) Baermann seems to be a reworking of the same passage of in
the Fischer Lazarus edition, although it is plainly not from Lazarus himself
- apart from the style, the typeface is different - a dead give-away that it
is included from another source.

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