Klarinet Archive - Posting 000082.txt from 1999/01

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] bassoon+Clarinet gig.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:39:58 -0500

On 1/2/99 10:45 PM, Edwin V. Lacy wrote:

>> also, there are wome wonderful Beethoven duets for clarinet and
>> Bassoon. listening to Beethoven can be a most religious experience!
>
>In many cases, perhaps most cases, this certainly is true. However, for
>me it is not true regarding these duets. They are very early works, and
>do not even have opus numbers, meaning that they were written before his
>Opus #1, before he moved from Bonn to Vienna, and before he met and
>interacted with such musicians as Mozart, and before he studied with
>Haydn. To me, they sound like what they are: student works. I would try
>to avoid playing them in church. In my opinion, they would not do much to
>inspire a congregation to contemplate the deeper mysteries.

And, in fact, there is some question about whether Beethoven really wrote
them.

David

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

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