Klarinet Archive - Posting 000671.txt from 2002/07

From: @-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] ...for the A clarinet? Yes!
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 01:25:18 -0400

--- Michael Bryant <michael@-----.uk> wrote:
> Hello Tony! Thanks. If I have you on my fishing line, I will not
> attempt to haul you in.
> Op 73 was dedicated to Andreas Grabau, who was not a clarinettist?

I didn't know about the dedication. But the pieces themselves are
certainly for clarinet. Alan Hacker recorded an earlier version called
"Soire'estuecke" (soiree about the accents:-), also for clarinet, of
which the manuscript is in a Paris (?) library. (You can check that
because this version is also now published.)

Of course, a dedication doesn't mean that the piece was written for the
dedicatee's instrument. Speaking of which, I always liked the Symphony
of Psalms dedication: Stravinsky said it was written "to the glory of
God, and dedicated to the Boston Symphony Orchestra."

Perhaps I shouldn't find that funny, but I do.

Tony

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