Klarinet Archive - Posting 000200.txt from 1998/08

From: "Lorne G. Buick" <lgbuick@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bulletin for CBC listeners
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 21:35:41 -0400

> Haydn wrote a clarinet concerto?? Is this a transcription of a concerto
> for another instrument? I didn't think the clarinet was around in Haydn's
> day.
>
> Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

Fred,

When exactly did you think "Haydn's day" was? He died in 1809, 18 years
after Mozart wrote K622. Not to mention Stamitz, Molter, and all the other
composers who wrote for the clarinet in the 18th century.

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