Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 2002/12

From: Bi6W@-----.net (Bill Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] playing music written for another instrument
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:19:42 -0500

<><> Rebecca=A0Brennan wrote:
Yesterday I started working on Sonata in c minor from Methodische
Sonaten written by Georg Philipp Telemann. I don't think the clarinet
was invented then, was it?

Yes, it was. Johann Denner, who is often given credit for inventing
the earliest clarinet, was born in 1700. Another author (named
Dopplemeyer) described one of Denner's clarinets in 1730, and
Dopplemeyer said that Denner used the name "so-called Clarinette" for
his "new sort of pipe". (quoted from Jack Brymer's book) There are
other descriptions of Denner's first chalumeaus (predecessors to the
modern clarinet) which existed in 1690.

I don't know about the particular piece of music that you have cited,
but Telemann did write some music specifically for the chalumeaux, such
as "Carillon For Two Chalumeaux". Brymer says that some of this early
1700's chalumeau music was more in the nature of "simply a pastoral
sound." I don't know what Brymer means by this, however.

Cheers,
Bill

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