Klarinet Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 2002/11

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: reverse Mozart
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 18:38:08 -0500

And then the string players put their bows down and told Mozart to forget
about pieces in B and F-sharp major if he wanted them to play - not to
mention the bassoonists and oboists. Hence, one could guess, the death of
the B-natural clarinet.

What were the two pieces Mozart used the B (or H?) clarinet in? Would the
clarinet have been necessarily the only woodwind to play in such a piece
(were the flutes, oboes and bassoons of the time equally limited or nearly
so in their chromatic ranges)?

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
>
>
> I know of no such effort, though the high-pitched clarinet in B-flat
> that was in use in the first half of the 20th century came very close to
> being a clarinet in B-natural. Mozart used the instrumnent only twice
> and its theoretical purpose was to permit facilitation for concert keys
> in more than 3 sharps.
>
>

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