Klarinet Archive - Posting 000280.txt from 2002/12

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Re: KVA 182
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:42:05 -0500

I wasn't at home when I posted on this subject earlier today, so this
evening I took a closer look at the score from which I worked when I
sequenced it. I recall being surprised that KVA 182 consists of only three
movements from K.361, that's why I held forth the hope in my posting that
there might be other arrangements. Einstein, in his biography of Mozart,
made the statement,

"there exists an arrangement of this work for the four customary pairs of
winds (K. Anh. 182), which may very well have been Mozart's own idea."

Whether it was Mozart's idea is neither here nor there, but the fact that
the "arrangement" consists of only three movements made me wonder why
Einstein didn't mention it. Moreover, as I got further into the sequencing
of the piece and discovered that most of each movement could be put in
place by copying and pasting from K.361 I began to wonder if Einstein had
ever studied the two scores side by side. My approach was simply to look
for the staff in K.361 which was the same as that in the score of KVA 182,
copy and paste it and then do a quick scan to make sure no measures
diverged from the KVA 182 score. I'm several months away from putting
together the score but it is my recollection that the horns and bassoons,
and maybe the clarinets, exhibit the occasional change where another
instrument in K.361 is sufficiently exposed. The octet movements 1,2 and 3
are so similar to the Serenade movements 5,4 and 6 respectively that the
assembly of the octet went very quickly.

Oliver

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