Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2000/06

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart K581a
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:13:46 -0400

On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:09:58 -0700, leeson0@-----.net said:

> Tony, clearly the entire fragment needs a complete restudy in light of
> what we know of basset clarinets today, coupled with the fact that the
> editor of that fragment in 1958 may not have correctly understood (or
> even seen) the original autograph of that piece. I remember reading
> that the great English musicologist, Tovey, once accused Mozart of not
> knowing the lower range of the clarinet because, in Tovey's view, he
> had put notes in that were too low to be played. And that may have
> been the 1958 editor's point of view. I must look up where that
> manuscript is and see if it is obtainable.

Yes, that would be good.

I think that I made a rather abrupt switch between writing about K581b
and K581, though -- looking back at it I'm not surprised you didn't
check the details.

When you wrote:

> > The volume is one of the earliest of the complete Mozart edition and
> > dates from around 1957 when we did not know much about basset
> > clarinets. It also has the Barenreiter edition of K. 581 in it,
> > too. Looks silly today without any attempt to have the low notes
> > edited in it.

....I went on

> I used to play the quaver arpeggios in the development section
> beginning in first inversion at one stage of my experimentation on the
> basset; ISTR this was a suggestion in the preface to the Eulenberg
> score by some German editor or other. Chris Hogwood then...

etc....

That was all about K581.

Have you seen the Druzetsky?

Tony
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