Klarinet Archive - Posting 001016.txt from 2001/01

From: Floyd Williams <f.williams@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] A TV show about K. 621b
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:11:00 -0500

Dan,
I saw the film on SBS television in Australia and made a copy for Peter
Spriggs who happened to be on holiday(from Canada) in Brisbane(Gold
Coast).He said he would have it converted to NTSC(I guess)from PAL and
return it to me.
IF you don't manage to get a copy or see it in the US,let me know,and
I'll send it along to you.You'll need a VCR that shows both formats or
have it converted.
Easier still,you could get in touch with Peter at
peter@-----.com
and his web-site is at www.pspriggs.com
At the end of the documentary,Thomes proceeds to perform with orchestra
the fragment which exists for basset horn.

Regards,
Floyd

Daniel Leeson wrote:
>
> 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
>
> ======================================================
>
> 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.
>
> =======================================================
>
> I wouldn't even know where to begin looking for such a film. But it
> certainly looks interesting.
>
> --
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> ** Dan Leeson **
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Floyd Williams
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
Brisbane, Qld. AUSTRALIA

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