Klarinet Archive - Posting 000657.txt from 2000/10

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] And while we are at it ...
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:21:27 -0400

--- Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> wrote:

> 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!

...And if somebody hits a G over the course of an improvisational
flight of fancy within the Mozart, per your repeated proclamations
that improvisation in the Classical period was more commonplace
than is reflected in modern performance? What then? Mozart may
indeed never have written notes that high on the instrument. Were
those notes not *possible* for the clarinet in the mid- and late
1700's? If they were, then it seems that it would be possible --
and justified -- to hear an improvisation or two that actually uses
them. The only apparent contraindication, if what I'm implying above
rings true ('could be completely off base), would seem to be the press-
ure of social conformity, i.e.; even if the notes were playable in
Mozart's day, they were not frequently used or heard and, hence,
most players avoided them in an effort to not rock the boat.

-- Neil

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