Klarinet Archive - Posting 000136.txt from 1999/09

From: dnaden <dnaden@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: New Mozart Concerto
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:13:12 -0400

After following this thread about a "new" Mozart Concert, I finally had to
add my $0.02. First, there are now six volumes to Dieter Klocker's ?Mozart
series on MDG. The last volume was released in August. Second, most if not
all of the of the works are attributed to Mozart, hence the title"?Mozart
Vol. x." Dan Leeson is one of the most knowledgeable persons when it comes
to the music of Mozart, and I agree with his post.

David S. Naden, MMus
Cal State University Los Angeles

"Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu" wrote:

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