Klarinet Archive - Posting 000653.txt from 2000/10

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] And while we are at it ...
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:21:56 -0400

For the past 50 years, the matter of low notes in the Mozart concerto
has been the subject of intense study, and today we all see the results
of that study, in terms of the basset clarinet, new editions, issues of
improvisation and Engange. All valuable and important steps forward.

Now I'd like to open the matter of the other end other clarinet's range.
In Joaquin's recording I notice that he uses an edition that allows him
to go up to a high G on at least two occasions.

And I would like to put forward the suggestion that there is no
precedent for this note anywhere in Mozart's writings for clarinets.
For an entirely different study, I examined the manuscripts of every
single thing that Mozart ever wrote for clarinet (where those
manuscripts existed, of course) and basset horn, and NEVER does he go
beyond either a high C# or high D. (I don't have my data in front of me
to be certain which note it is.) And he uses that otherwise highest
note only once or twice.

So I ask the question: what is the defense for the use of high G in K.
622? In the absence of any autograph material in which that note is
found, I suggest that we have no business playing that note, and its
presence in any performance of K. 622 is contraindicated. The
probability is very much on my side that Mozart never wrote it!
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