Klarinet Archive - Posting 001008.txt from 2001/01

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] A TV show about K. 621b
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:15:44 -0500

The following note was sent to my by a friend in Australia who said that
she saw this show on Australian TV. Though her note contains minor
technical errors (which I have left alone), it is certainly something I
would love to see. Does anyone know anything about this?

Note follows:

Dan Leeson

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The Title was "Anigma of K.621b".

Written by Thierry Nutchey and Olivier Julien
after an idea by Gilles Thome.

The film was made by Art Symbols/Engstfeld Filmproduktion. France
3/mezzo. RTBF (television helge).

Thome is a French/Canadian musician who was studying Mozart's clarinet
concerto K.622 and was looking for the original manuscript. That, of
course, is lost but a sketch of the first movement, allegro (K.621b) is
available in a Geneva museum. Mozart wrote on the score "for a basset
horn in G" and only changed it for a clarinet near the end of the
manuscript.

The story unfolds that there was no basset horn in G available in
Mozart's time as far as we know, and Thome traces the possible
provenance of such an instrument to a man called Theodore Lotz.

In the film he finds three basset horns in G in a castle in Slovakia and
in the end makes one himself.

I am sure you will be able to obtain the film in America or Canada.

Kind regards, Agnes.

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I wouldn't even know where to begin looking for such a film. But it
certainly looks interesting.

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