Klarinet Archive - Posting 000261.txt from 2000/06

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart K581a
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 18:16:42 -0400

Dan:

After 32 years the memory falters from time to time. Thanks. You're
correct. He was working on it and I mentioned the other one to him because
I'd just read the fragment of it a couple of months earlier.

Allen

At 03:14 PM 6/7/00 -0700, you wrote:
>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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