Klarinet Archive - Posting 000687.txt from 1999/11

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Birth/Death Years for Luigi Bassi
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:14:20 -0500

David Neithamer wrote
>Mark Charette schrieb:
>
>> > Anyone know the birth/death years of Luigi Bassi (for program
purposes)?
>> Bassi,Luigi (1833-1897)
>>
on 10/30/99 12:20 PM, David Glenn wrote:
>+++++++++++++++++++
>That's interesting. I don't know anymore *where* I have it from but my
dates
>for Luigi Bassi are 1833-1871. (He would have died aged 38 in that case.)
I
>hear he was 1st clarinettist in the Scala of Milan and edited Lefevre's
tutor
>(publ. by Ricordi).
>
>Are these infos maybe (also??)wrong? I jotted them down on my copy of
>Rigoletto and forgot the source....

Hi David.
I'll correct the dates for now, but I'm going to leave a question mark on it
in my personal notes. I haven't found any reference at all in the "big
tomes" on Bassi's birth & death dates - time to write to La Scala, I guess
:^)

Cheers,
Mark C.

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