Klarinet Archive - Posting 000583.txt from 1999/09

From: "clarinet" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Low E-flat--Brahms 4
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 00:31:15 -0400

Benjamin Maas writes:

>I noticed something strange yesterday morning while in a rehearsal for
>Brahms 4th symphony. As many of you know, the third movement is written
for
>C clarinet. Unfortunately our principal doesn't have a C so I have to
play
>it on B-flat (I play second). Turns out to be just as well because there
is
>a low e-flat written in the part.

>Does anybody know why this is there. Was there a low e-flat C clarinet
back
>then that Brahms wrote for? or was it originally supposed to be
transposed
>to B-flat and it never made it into the parts?

>Any ideas? This is the only time I have seen that note in the music of
>Brahms. (I could be wrong, but it is also the only C clarinet part I've
>ever played in a piece by Brahms)

We did a read-through of both the Op. 11 and Op. 16 Serenades of Brahms and
I know I had to read some "C" clarinet parts. I can't recall if the "C"
was used in both, however.

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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