Klarinet Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 2001/02

From: "Ian Black" <clarinet1@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] A TV show about K. 621b
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:57:46 -0500

If it is possible to get a copy of this in PAL format, I'd be interested. If
anyone has this program/film and facilities to copy it (PAL format), please
let me know.

Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] A TV show about K. 621b

> 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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