Klarinet Archive - Posting 000134.txt from 1999/09

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Re: New Mozart Concerto
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:39:14 -0400

Of course, I shall buy a copy of the new disk, just as I have bought
and listened in admiration with every one of Klocker's past discoveries.
Unfortunately, in terms of documentation to support his finds, Klocker
has been woefully inadequate. In fact, he keeps his work so close
to his vest that few people outside of himself know what and where
he got what he has brought forward. He does not permit his music to
be published, does not allow it to be lent to anyone, and is quite
silent about it, considering that it would be world class news if it
were traceable to Mozart's person.

Finally this. No independent researcher has ever confirmed a single
one of his many speculations.

That does not mean that he is wrong, only that the odds are heavily
against him.

For every single piece of new Mozart that is unearthed, the world of
Mozart scholars are right on top of it. Meetings, seminars, colloquia
are held to argue the issues. The most recent such case is Buch's
suggestion that parts of the opera "The Philosopher's Stone" was composed
by Mozart. That news was not 20 seconds old when every Mozart scholar
in the world knew about it and awaited further details. Since then,
papers have appeared arguing the question of its authenticity, and a
seminar in Salzburg last June centered on the matter.

If Klocker asserts that he has discovered a previously unknown
concerto for clarinet and orchestra by Mozart, nobody in the Mozart
business knows a thing about it. Nor is there any evidence that
Mozart wrote such an additional work. You have to figure that with
people all over the world researching Mozart and his music, the chances
that Klocker would discover a previously unknown work and that nobody
in the Mozart hierarchy would know about it is very, very small.

For those of you that think that the advancement of a work by someone
other than Mozart as an authentic Mozart composition is an unheard of
event, I can give you about 200 such examples. Just one of them (and
with clarinet, too) is published and available from Southern Music
Company in Texas. It is called the "Cassation Quartet," has been
recorded at least twice as a Mozart composition, and is advertised
as an authentic work. You may have played it. It is for four winds.

Hope for the best, but expect the worst.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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