Klarinet Archive - Posting 000287.txt from 1998/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart and a "new concerto"
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:24:14 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.99
> Subj: [kl] Mozart and a "new concerto"

> This falls under the category of "things that make you go hmmmm.
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> I was glancing through an older issue of the HB Recordings catalog
> (May to be exact) and on p. 13 came across this description of a recording
> by Dieter Klocker.
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> "Scholarly research has revealed that the E flat Concerto, which
> was previously thought to be a sixth violin concerto, was probably
> intended to be for the clarinet."
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> Does anyone have an idea if this research exists and where to find it? I
> have not heard of this one before.
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> Laroy
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> Dr. Laroy Borchert
> Professor of Clarinet
> NMSU
>

Laroy, if you believe this one, there is a bridge in Brooklyn that
I would like to sell to you. There are several anomolies in the
description the first of which is that Mozart wrote only 5 violin
concerti and the second of which is the relative impossibility of
transcribing what is suggested to be a work for clarinet to an
idiomatic work for violin.

Suppose for a moment that Mozart did write another clarinet concerto
and the violin mafia decided to steal it and make it into a violin
concerto. The two instruments have such different tessaturas and
are used so radically differently that what would come out would be
a crippled piece of composition.

There is yet another factor at work here; i.e., who is going to buy
a clarinet concerto that was formerly a violin concerto of Ludwig
Schnurtz (made up name)? No one. So instead, a clever marketeer
says, "Let's tie this one to Mozart somehow and it will make a
mint."

Now let us talk about that bridge that I own in Brooklyn...

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