Klarinet Archive - Posting 000285.txt from 1999/05

From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinets
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 10:27:45 -0400

Dan,
Regarding your observation of The Mozart Requiem's Santus: It's in three
sharps, therefore, that proves Sussmayer was its true composer. I had
simply assumed that it was originally written for Bassethorn in G.

Thanks,
Ed Maurey

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> From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.de>
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] C Clarinets
> Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 8:04 AM
>
>
>
> Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu schrieb:
>
> - snip -
>
> > > 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
> > =======================================
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> 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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