Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 2000/06

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] K. 622 reconstruction
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:52:06 -0400

Franz Geigling was the editor of the NMA volume that contained only one work, but in
two versions, namely K622 in the traditional version and K 622 in a version for
basset clarinet which he created especially for the volume. He did some very good
things, but there are ongoing disagreements if he did too little or too much. It
really did not matter what he did because there were going to be 250 players who
disagreed with anything he chose.

Of course he had no autograph material available (excpet for the Winterthur
manuscript) so he made up what he thought would work when he added low notes, and in
the main it is very good. But if you look at Hacker's edition, it's is quite
different. And I read a scholarly paper by some guy from Boston that fairly much
said neither man had gone far enough.

So, in effect, anyone who wants to play the basset clarinet version of K. 622 has
free reign to do whatever s/he wishes. There is simply no authority to do or not do
anything. Consequently, the deviations you spoke of from the NMA are simply changes
that Ottensamer chose to make at his own discretion. And there is no one who can
say him yea or nea.

Dan Leeson

Doug Sears wrote:

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