Klarinet Archive - Posting 000025.txt from 2000/06

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] K. 581a, the story continues
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:34:18 -0400

Here is what Tyson says in his "Studies of the Autograph Scores" about
581a:

On page 138: "Einstein suggested that K. 581a was an early idea for the
finale of the Clarinet Quintet, K. 581 (29 Sept. 1789), and that it was
after that date that Mozart decided to use its main theme for Ferrando's
B-flat aria "Ah! lo veggio quell'anima bella" in the second act of Cosi
fan Tutte. But K. 581a is surely not an entirely serious piece of
music; the thirteen changes of clef in the clarinet part in mm. 51-69
suggest that it was intended for domestic amusement, perhaps even for
the discomfiture of his friend Anton Stadler, and is thus more likely to
have been written after the opera than before it. A date of 1790 is
therefore probable."

Elsewhere, he comments that "in the case of ... K. 581a, we know that
more of the fragment has survived elsewhere." (See below)

As to where the manuscript is today, Tyson's watermark volume lists two
places. The first (containing the material shown in the Barenreiter
volume and being only 89 measures long) is in the Salzburg Mozarteum.
The second (containing the additional material that Tony Pay reminded me
of) is also in Austria but in Gottweig at the Musikarchiv,
Benediktinerstift Gottweig, which is, apparently where Tyson was the
first one to make the connection between it and the first 89 measures.
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** Dan Leeson **
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