Klarinet Archive - Posting 000731.txt from 2000/06

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Concerto - Quintet?
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 06:32:23 -0400

Hello David,
Are you asking me to wait until the last year of my life before I am able to
pay the bills?
If I here you correctly, you could also ask a violinist to play the clarinet
concerto. Cast your mind back just a few weeks, when I seem to remember no
criticisms when a certain eminent English clarinettist recorded the
Beethoven
violin concerto.
What about Stokowski, Edward Elgar, and no doubt several others who have
orchestrated Bach`s organ works for orchestra? What about Franz Lizst`s
piano arrangements/transcriptions, (call them what you will) of scores and
scores of Opera etc, etc. I could go on David. I won`t.
Have you thought about the potential <educational> value of young (or
older) students who might benefit from progressing from piano rehearsal,
thru` 4tet and then onto orchestra. This might or might <not> prove to be
valuable, but my point is that this concerto is <not> sacrosanct. It is
mearly a very fine composition, similar to thousands of others. I will end
by saying that I believe all the world`s Masters wrote rubbish on occasions,
some of which passed by both the publisher and the composer him/herself.
I know of a most eminent English composer, no longer alive, knighted, with
dozens of fine works and operas being performed world wide every day who
used to say to his music copyist "Do what you like" each time the copyist
phoned to clarify an unclearly written note. Composers generally are not
quite the perfectionists as what players are, and like to be. I don`t think
this is as fully understood as what it should be. They are a law unto
themselves.
You are the first (after Alf) I have replied to. I will indeed read the
other replies now, and I hope to reply to those who wish for one.
I will read up on the classiccd web site.
Best Wishes,
Tony Wakefield

----- Original Message -----
From: David B. Niethamer <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: [kl] Mozart Concerto - Quintet?

> on 6/18/00 6:03 PM, Mark Charette wrote:
>
> >Mozart was a reasonably successful freelancer. See
> >http://www.classiccd.co.uk/composers/features/mozart/mozartl.html
>
> Two H.C. Robbins-Landon books also bear this out. "1791, Mozart's Last
> Year" and "The Mozart Essays" have material which shows that Mozart was
> at least feeding and housing his family, and was starting to do pretty
> well just before he died. He wasn't getting rich, but h wasn't on the
> street, either.
>
> David
>
> David Niethamer
> Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
> dnietham@-----.edu
> http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/
>
>
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