Klarinet Archive - Posting 000154.txt from 2000/06

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] K. 622 reconstruction
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:16:44 -0400

I got quite a turn last night. I was listening to the Mozart concerto on a
public radio broadcast, and the announcer said it had been the Vienna Phil. at
the Salzburg Festival, Mehta conducting, and the soloist was Ernst Ottensamer,
"playing a reconstruction of the concerto for bass clarinet attributed to Franz
Geigling". My mind started racing -- what an idea this Geigling had! Basset clts
are hard to find, so you just play it up an octave on an A bass clarinet (or up
a major seventh on a Bb bass clt, if you're a real hero), making it easy to play
all those original low basset notes.

After finding out that Franz Giegling edited (or somehow had his name on) the
NMA basset reconstruction, I decided I was just a victim of sloppy announcing:
bass clarinet -> basset clarinet
attributed to -> edited by
Geigling -> Giegling

I did notice one odd thing: in the 3rd mvt, mm.311-313, Ottensamer played it in
the lower octave, but without the low c! (i.e., [I'm leaving out the upper c's]
agfefg rather than agfecg).

--Doug
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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears

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