Klarinet Archive - Posting 000202.txt from 1998/08

From: "F. Sheim" <fsheim@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bulletin for CBC listeners
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:15:48 -0400

At 11:45 PM 8/4/98 -0330, you wrote:
>> 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)
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>Fred,
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>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.

How about that. I didn't check. I just checked my music collection-
indeed it contains a recording of a concerto in D by MICHAEL Haydn ("little
brother of Joseph"), and it sounds like the Molter concertos.

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

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