Klarinet Archive - Posting 000284.txt from 1999/05

From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinets
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 10:27:44 -0400

Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu schrieb:

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> > Dan, this information is terrific. When will this paper be
> > published.....or, has it been already? Will it be available?
>
> The next edition of the Mozart Jahrbuch will come out in Dec., 1999
> and it will have the paper (co authored by Bob Levin and me). If
> you are desperate, I could probably make a copy of it but it is
> about 40 typed pages. So you had better be desperate.
>
> - snip -
>
> So Mozart ignores the whole problem, leaves the clarinet in 1 flat,
> and then writes all the accidentals in where they occur; i.e., every
> f# and c# is explicitly written in and every b-flat is nullified with
> a natural sign. Take a look at the score. THE CLARINET PART IS
> DELIBERATELY WRITTEN IN THE WRONG KEY. Incidentally, the title
> of the paper that Levin and I did is "Mozart's deliberate use of
> incorrect key signatures for clarinets and basset horns."
>

> - snip -

>
>
> He was a prisoner of his times and he could not use any key he
> wanted for any clarinet.
>
> By the way, that is the main reason why one can prove with almost
> absolute certainty that Mozart did not write the Sanctus of
> his Requiem mass, K. 626. Sussmayr did. He wasn't very smart
> and he wrote for both basset horns in the key of written A major
> or 3 sharps. That would have been inconceivable for Mozart.
>
> The things you see when you are out without a gun.
>
> =======================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
> =======================================

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Dan,

Wow, that's absolutely fascinating, Dan! It's so obvious *if* you notice it! Didn't
realize that Süßmayr was such a nerd...

I hate to bother you about a photo copy ... but if you're making one anyway ... uh,
maybe you could make two??

Or how difficult (or expensive) is it to buy a Mozart Jahrbuch?

David

David Glenn
notestaff@-----.de
dl_glenn@-----.de

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