Klarinet Archive - Posting 000586.txt from 2001/08

From: Claaronet622@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Ed Lacy's comments about horns`
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:17:16 -0400

In a message dated 8/31/01 2:57:00 PM, leeson0@-----.net writes:

<< Is it your suggestion that Leister and Stolzman sound differently
because of their nationalities (i.e., a suggested German sound vs. some
other nationalistic sound), or because of training, or because of
clarinet manufacturer, or mouthpiece characteristics, or what?
>>

Of course all those factors come into play, but the point is not why they
sound different but that they DO sound different, thus changing the sonic
palette. I picked those two names because of the obvious differences in
sound. That they are from different countries, play different types of
clarinets, etc. is surely a cause of this, but I could have easily used, say,
Harold Wright and Robert Marcellus as examples. Every clarinetist has a
different idea of how the instrument should, and if a composer has a certain
clarinet sound in his ear (Mozart probably heard Stadler, for example) when
he writes a piece and rigidly sets a "sonic palette" based on that player's
playing of a certain clarinet (so you say), then shouldn't that work die
along with the clarinetist, lest the palette be altered?
Regards,
Aaron

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