Klarinet Archive - Posting 001090.txt from 1999/12

From: "W. Edinger" <wde1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Weber I, T, & V
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:19:24 -0500

Rien,

My notes on this piece (no pun intended) say it was posthumously
attributed to von Weber, but was probably actually composed be Kueffner,
who I recall was a student of Weber. I don't think anyone knows for
sure, though. My Carl Fischer edition says it was originally composed
in 1850 for Heinrich Baermann, and was originally written for clarinet
and string quartet. This is most peculiar, since this printing lists
only Weber as composer, and he died in 1826. By the way, Pamela Weston
mentioned Weber's infamous accident with etching acid in the latest
Clarinet, and wrote that he accidentally swallowed citric acid that had
been put in a wine bottle. Probably it was actually sulfuric acid, or
"vitriol," since citric acid is much too weak to etch either lithographs
or anyone's vocal cords (Weber survived, but his singing voice didn't).

Bill Edinger
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