Klarinet Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2003/01

From: "fred.sheim" <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Who wrote this concero?
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:09:27 -0500

I have just received a reply from the Tudor record company about the=20
Lefevre (Hook?) Concerto:

Dear Sir
We informed Eduard Brunner about your conflict and he confirmed us that the=
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concerto is really a Lef=E8vre work.
Best regards Wladek Glowacz

I emailed H. Voxman, who attributed this work to Hook, but did not receive=
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a reply. Can anyone shed some additional light on this matter? Why would=
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Mr. Voxman believe this was a work of Hook, and why would it be published=20
as such, and RECORDED as such?

Fred

I have just received a wonderful CD with Eduard Brunner as soloist playing=
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three of J. X. Lefevre's clarinet concertos, nos. 3, 4, and 6. I have the=
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sheet music for the concerto #6, as well as an old audio tape of it that=20
was played decades ago on WQXR's "Music from Germany" program. I was aware=
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of the existence of the concerto #4, because I saw it (and #6) in the score=
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published by Heugel. So I was eager to hear the Lefevre clarinet concerto=
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#3, since I was totally unaware of it. As I listened to the CD, the=20
concerto #3 sounded strangely familiar, but I couldn't really remember=20
how. I KNEW I played this work, but don't own the sheets for Lefevre's=20
#3. Well, it took this aging brain a full 24 hours to realize that the=20
"concerto #3 by LEFEVRE" on this CD is published by "English Woodwind=20
Edition (Nova music, ed. H. Voxman) as JAMES HOOK'S CONCERTO IN Eb!!! So=20
could someone set me straight on this- Is this work by Lefevre or=20
Hook? And what could cause such a monumental mixup?

LINER NOTES FOR THE =91LEFEVRE=92 CONCERTO #3

Possibly written just before 1800, the 3rd Concerto in E-flat allows the=20
soloist little respite. In the first movement he goes from the lowest to=20
the highest registers. The Adagio, only 56 bars long, features some of the=
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most sublime melodies invented by a Swiss classical composer. Brilliant=20
runs in the Rondo-Finale give way to an episode in minor key. In its=20
intervals and rhythm, the main theme recalls Papageno's aria "Der=20
Vogelfanger bin ich ja" from Mozart's "Magic Flute".

PREFACE (TO THE =91HOOK=92 Eb CONCERTO)

<snip>

Among his numerous instrumental compositions are overtures, concertos,=20
sonatas, and works for small ensembles. For the flute he composed a set of=
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Six Trios, op. 83 and Three Trios for Two Concert Flutes and the Patent=20
Voice Flute, op. 133, as well as some duets.
The title page of the manuscript score of the clarinet concerto reads Full=
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score / Concerto for the Clarinet /by/James Hook/Autograph In S.,=20
dated/August 4:1812. The heading of the first page of the actual score=20
reads Concerto, Clarinetto Obligato, August 4th, 1812. We are indebted to=
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the Nanki Music Library of Tokyo for furnishing the microfilm on which this=
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edition is based. The concerto is in the W.H. Cummings Collection of that=20
library, whose holdings have since been acquired by the Tokyo College of=20
Music and a private collector
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H. Voxman
R.P. Block
Iowa City, Iowa
December, 1983

Fred=20