Klarinet Archive - Posting 000398.txt from 2001/11

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Classic Tarogato?
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 20:00:53 -0500

Joseph Schunda's tarogato has not travelled far outside the borders
of Hungary and Romania were it appears regularly on folk ensembles
and belongs mostly to the velocity school of playing.

Mahler, Richter and Nikisch favoured its use in the shepherd's lament
in Tristan (Act III). Before Schunda (it was a shawm) and was used
in the opera 'Svatopluc' (1839) by the Hungarian composer
Karoly (Karl) Thern (1817-1886). There is a tutor for the tarogato
in Hungarian. Antol Molnar (1890-?) wrote his Kuruc Music for
4 tarogatos and orchestra in 1936. The bibliography (mostly in Hungarian
- I have most of it and, if pressed, will dig it out) is pitifully small,
but the list is longer in Grove V (1953) than New Grove (1980).
The author of these article, John Weismann lived on the Isle of Wight
and the New Grove article was shortened after the author's death
without further attributions. No harm in exploring the contemporary
music written for soprano saxophone? Certainly it is worth contacting
Jozsef Balogh in Budapest. Mrs Balogh speaks good English
and is the editor and organiser for the Hungarian Clarinet Society.
Mr Balogh does not claim to speak English until the conversation
strays onto a subject about which he is enthusiastic!

Beatrix Balogh, Bécsi ùt 88/90. 1/31, 1034 Budapest, Hungary
Telephone: +36 13886689 fax: +36 13886689

MB

You wrote on Thursday, November 08, 2001 10:25 PM
Subject: [kl] Classic Tarogato?

> Hi,
> I possess a beautiful tarogato Stowasser that I would like to use for a
> recital with piano.
> I turn to you to have information on the repertoire of the classical
> tarogato: concerts, sonatas.
> regards.
>
> Paolo Gavelli
>
>
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