Klarinet Archive - Posting 000115.txt from 2000/07

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] von Weber Concertos 1 & 2 -Reply -Reply
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:31:24 -0400

On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:31:20 -0600, mholling@-----.edu said:

> Tony,
>
> No, I have not indicated the editor when I have performed the Weber
> 1st, but I don't use all of the ossia parts anyway. These extra
> ornaments are found only in the first movement.

:-)

> I agree, an "Urtext", more authentic, closer to the manuscript
> edition, may yield Weber's true intentions better, but many students
> need more to go by.

But we and they together may investigate what that 'more' is, no? And
doing that is what performing is all about.

> I have never investigated the Weber manuscripts. How much is truly
> the composer and not copyist or performer indications?

I think the newest Breitkopf editions now represent what Weber wrote in
the way of dynamics and articulation (not much).

> Keith Koons (University of Central Florida) gave an interesting
> presentation at Ohio State on the different Mozart Concerto editions.

I've read the text version of that.

My view is that it's not interesting, because I don't care what all
these guys think. It's between me and Mozart, or between me and what we
have of what Mozart wrote.

As Dan Leeson and I independently have both said here, the *only*
contender is the Baerenreiter edition; though there are dubious
decisions in that, to do with the transpositions for normal clarinet.
I've posted about that too.

Tony
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