Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 2000/06

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart K581a
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 18:14:56 -0400

He did indeed do a completion of a clarinet quintet, but it was not K. 581a. It was
K. 516c which is for B-flat clarinet and string quartet. That is published by
Nagel's Musikarchiv which I think is a subsidiary of Baerenreiter.

Dan

"Allen J. Levin" wrote:

> Dan:
>
> That is the fragment I discussed with Bob Levin at Fontainebleau back in
> '68. I can't remember, though if he did a "completion" of the fragment or
> was then just planning it. As I recall, it requires an extended range
> instrument.
>
> Allen
>
> At 09:03 AM 6/1/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Tony, I sent a note too, but mine is a little different than yours.
> >While I said that this is the music of K. 581a, it is not K. 581a! That
> >K listing is reserved for a fragmentary clarinet quintet movement (from
> >something) but is absoutely incomplete and unplayable. What was on
> >sneezy was someone's completion of this quintet, and that is NOT K.
> >581a. It is not that I am making a value judgement on the arrangement,
> >only a statement that it is NOT what Mozart sketched out. It may be a
> >very good completion though.
> >
> >Tony Pay wrote:
> >>
> >> On 1 Jun 2000 14:20:16 -0000, charette@-----.org said:
> >>
> >> > Would someone who has references for chacking please take a look at
> >> > the parts and see if it really is K581a? I don't want to put it up in
> >> > the Sneezy music section as something it isn't.
> >>
> >> Yup, looks like it. In fact, this is the music of the usually omitted
> >> tenor aria from 'Cosi' that Dan mentioned, and it's usually omitted
> >> because tenors find it too high and demanding.
> >>
> >> When we did Cosi at Glyndebourne in 1991 (I think), Kurt Streit sang it
> >> wonderfully, hanging off a gantry, as well -- it was set on a boat!-)
> >>
> >> Tony
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