Klarinet Archive - Posting 000622.txt from 2002/07

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Earliest works for the A clarinet?
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:18:36 -0400

Michael Bryant wrote (about the A clarinet):

>Additional early suggestions please?

>1789 Mozart Quintet
>1791 Mozart Concerto
>1814 Karl Arnold Sonata Opus 7
>1814 Spohr Octet
>1828 Spohr Concerto No 4
>1849 Schumann Op 73 (for cello originally)
>1891 Brahms Trio and Quintet

>Undated: Harmony music by Rosetti (1750-1792)

I don't have any details (i. e., music) available, but know that the A
clarinet (as well as the Bb and C) is used in some of the WW Quintets of
Anton Reicha (1770 - 1836).

Also, the sonata, Op. 2, by Archduke Rudolph of Austria, uses the A
clarinet. His dates are 1788 - 1831. According to notes with Ricardo
Morales' recording, it was published in 1822 but written some ten years
earlier. He also uses clarinet in his septet in e minor. I would suspect
this uses A clarinet (in 2 flats) rather than Bb (in 3 sharps).

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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