Klarinet Archive - Posting 000676.txt from 2002/07

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] ...for the A clarinet? Yes!
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 02:33:45 -0400

Yes, I know about this edition by Alan Hacker and Richard Platt (Faber 1985)
There are as you say many examples of non-playing dedications
Needless to say, in the age of patronage, and 'pockets' of patronage
thereafter, the dedicatee was frequently a man or woman of means.
Probably Boston stipulated the dedication by Stravinsky and paid for it.
Examples do not prove anything, but here are a few:
Crusell Quartet Op 4 - Brandel - diplomat
Crusell Concerto Op11 - Crown Prince Oscar of Sweden - conductor etc
Bax Sonata - Hugh Prew - cricketer and friend of the composer, amateur
clarinet player, a photograph of whom hangs in the Fairfield Hall, Croydon
(seen by David Campbell)
Reger Quintet - Carl Wendling - quartet leader
Bliss Quintet - Bernhard van Dieren - composer
Elgar Symphony No1 - Hans Richter, true artist and friend - conductor
Elgar Symphony No2 - D. to the memory of K. Edward VII - monarch (1911)

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Tony Pay wrote on Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] ...for the A clarinet? Yes!

> > ""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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