Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 2002/11

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: reverse Mozart
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:45:55 -0500

Dan,

Well, my tongue was a little way into my cheek, but I didn't mean to imply
string players would have objected to the use of a B clarinet, rather to the
use of a key signature with 5 or 6 sharps in it. Or is it only modern string
players who whine about those keys?

And what of the other woodwinds, who didn't have as many choices of
instruments to alleviate their key signature woes? If the piece were in B
Major, did Mozart simply leave out the other woodwinds and substitute B
clarinets instead (I don't know the opera excerpts you cited and am not
handy to a library with scores, or I'd answer my own question)?

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:04 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Re: reverse Mozart
>
>
> Karl Krelove wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> But what makes you think that the string players would have objected to
> their use in Mozart's time. Even considering that you had your tongue
> in your cheek when you wrote that line, THEY would have not have had a
> problem with the instrument. It was the clarinet player where the
> problem lay.
>
> Dan Leeson
>
> >
> >
>

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