Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: K622 Bassett clarinet edition provenance
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 15:53:02 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.31
> Subj: [kl] Re: K622 Bassett clarinet edition provenance

> RE: the correct writing of the basset clarinet part in the Mozart
> Concerto, Jack Brymer's book* has a figure marked "Transcription of the
> clarinet part of Mozart's K612b (sic, it should be K621b), in the
> Ryshenberg-Stiftung, Winterthur. Originally in Mozart's hand." This
> shows only 199 bars of the development of the first movement, and Brymer
> notes that it was intended for a bassetto in G, although his source for
> this claim is unstated.
>
> Perhaps I missed this on the discussion, but would this not be a
> definitive source for some of the bassett notes, directly in the case of
> this page and by analogy elsewhere?

This is the Winterthur fragment mentioned earlier by Tony Pay, and
you may see a facsimile of this manuscript in the NMA volume of
the Mozart concerto. The difficulty lies in the fact that it is
very sketchy and insufficient. It is, in fact, a sketch, not that
it has NO use. There is an important difference in the melody that
is now coming into more and more use, but many players either don't
like it (because it is different from what they know) or because
they continue to use older editions.

Bottom line: there is not enough of the Winterthur fragment to answer
all the questions that exist.

>
> Robert Howe
>
> *Brymer, Jack, "Clarinet". Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides, Schirmer Books,
> New York 1976.
>
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