Klarinet Archive - Posting 000847.txt from 1999/11

From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Birth/Death Years for Luigi Bassi
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 04:27:49 -0500

"David B. Niethamer" 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....
>
> David - I looked in Weston "More Great Clarinet Virtuosi..." and found
> the same dates you did, and the info about La Scala. Here is the entry.
>
> Luigi Bassi (1833-71), Italian. Hans von Bülow called him a "valentissimo
> artista." He was first clarinet at the Scala Theater, Milan, and is best
> known as the composer of the popular "Rigoletto Fantasie." Quite early in
> his career Bassi made an edition of Lefevre's tutor, which Ricordi
> published. He also wrote a "Nocturne" and other Fantasies.
>
> Sorry this is so late.
>
> David
>
> David Niethamer
> Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
> dnietham@-----.edu
> http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/
>
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>

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David,

Thanks a bunch! I'll print it out and put it with my part.

I'm even later!

David

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