Klarinet Archive - Posting 000296.txt from 1998/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart and a "new concerto"
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:32:16 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.30
> Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart and a "new concerto"

> There are at least three violin concerti which have been attributed to
> Mozart in the past (but no longer are), and have been recorded in this
> form
> - I don't know whether any are still in the catalog(ue)s; I think Menuhin
> did them all a long while back, probably for EMI (in the UK). Is this
> putative clarinet concerto one of
> these?
> Roger Shilcock

If it is said to be derived from "a sixth violin concerto of Mozart" then
it must be one of the spurious works since only five violin concerti are
certain to be authentic. All the others (including one created as a joke
by the father of the Casadesus pianists - some joke) are known to be
spurious. There's piles of paper on their origin and I am shocked the
this has apparently been ignored by Klocker. It is as if I had
suddenly come up with a clarinet version of Beethovens 11th symphony.

Well there is no such animal, and that is that!

Perhaps one of the reasons why Klocker is not asking for the assistance
of any musicologists in his attributions derives from the possibility
that he would be shot down before two eyeblinks had elapsed.

>
>
> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Oliver Seely wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 09:45:07 -0500
> > From: Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.EDU>
> > Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: RE: [kl] Mozart and a "new concerto"
> >
> > At 08:24 AM 11/9/98 +0000, Dan wrote:
> >
> > >Laroy, if you believe this one, there is a bridge in Brooklyn that
> > >I would like to sell to you.
> >
> > I think that I'd trust Dan on this one. Still, the fact that someone has
> > suggested that the concerto might work well with clarinet and in this day
> > and age of music notation programs and MIDI files, the temptation is just too
> > sweet to resist. I'll look around for existing MIDI files first and if I
> > can't find
> > any, I'll make the conversion one of my next projects. I mean ANYTHING but
> > another septet. Those things are labors of love!! And can you believe, I
> > have
> > four more septets (which include clarinet) staring at me on my desk at home:
> > one by Lachner, one by Kreutzer and two others which I can't remember. The
> > legacy of the clarinet literature which has been handed down to us is
> > fabulous
> > and contains so much stuff that hardly every gets played. But there are only
> > 24 hours in a day!! 8-)
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> >
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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