Klarinet Archive - Posting 000739.txt from 2000/10

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] And while we are at it ...
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:02:01 -0400

That is a valid question and I don't know the answer to it. Perhaps
some of the original instrument players could comment on it. But the
points being made on this matter are independent of the phyiscal ability
to produce that note. The issue is that there is no evidence that
Mozart ever employed that note (or, in fact, anything above high D) in
any work he ever wrote for clarinet. And since the manuscript of K. 622
has been lost for 200 years and we play the work from sources other than
the original, we have no idea what he wrote in the original.

Dan

Gary Truesdail wrote:
>
> Indeed!! Were the clarinets of Mozart's time even capable of producing a
> high G?
> GaryT
>
> Daniel Leeson wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
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