Klarinet Archive - Posting 000339.txt from 1998/08

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Haydn Clarinet Concerti
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:52:24 -0400

on 8/5/98 5:32 PM, David E Ross wrote:

>Dieter Kloecker has recently uncovered and recorded what he feels to be a
>long-lost Haydn clarinet concerto. The background and stylistic grounds
>for such an attribution are detailed by him in a recent issue of the
>German woodwind magazine 'rohrblatt (vol. 13/1). Presumably much of this
>is duplicated in the notes to the CD--"Orfeo C 448971 A" (which I have not
>yet heard.) On this CD are also 2 Haydn Concerti for 2 Clarinets, which
>are most likely connected to the Notturni Haydn wrote for the King of
>Naples in 1786.

I'm not a scholar (nor do I play one on TV). But I have a little
difficulty with the sort of "scholarship" practiced by Mr Klocker. He
seems to find lots of pieces that clarinetists have not known about for
two centuries (give or take), and he records them. But those pieces are
rarely available for scholars to examine, are not published, and are
rarely made available for other clarinetist to perform. *IF* these are
legitimately long-lost works, should they not be made available for
scholarly inquiry (of the sort practiced by our own Dan Leeson) so that
their authenticity can be confirmed? Would it not be nice for them to be
shared with the rest of the clarinet community (after Mr. Klocker has
gotten his "mileage" out of them for a suitable interval of time) via
scholarly publication?

I haven't seen Mr. Klocker's article in rohrblatt, so I can't make any
judgment about the level of the scholarship that went into this
discovery. But my experience with Klocker's recording/edition of the
Mozart "Quartets" for clarinet and strings makes me suspicious. It smells
a little like Walsegg - the gentleman who commissioned Mozart's Requiem
(and other works to be sure) in secrecy so that he could sign his own
name to it.

Can anyone offer substantive information about this "Haydn" concerto, or
any of Klocker's other long-lost rarities. I'd love to be proven wrong.

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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