Klarinet Archive - Posting 000838.txt from 2003/02

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Shepherd on the Rock
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:07:41 -0500

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:03:08 +0100, Georg.Kuehner@-----.de said:

> Am 25.02.2003 5:19 Uhr schrieb "William Edinger" unter <wde2@-----.com>:

> > Under the title (in German) are the names "Wilhelm Mueller und
> > Helmina von Chezy (?)" (Baerenreiter). Anybody know why the
> > composer is omitted and two (to me) strangers are listed?
>
> [They] wrote the poems Schubert used.

Mueller was the poet who wrote 'Die Schoene Mullerin' and 'Winterreise',
while Helmine von Chezy was the librettist of Weber's 'Euryanthe' and
the author of Rosamunde, for which Schubert wrote incidental music.

> The Composition is dedicated to Anna Milder-Hauptmann

..,and was probably the last thing Schubert wrote. He died a month
after writing it, without ever hearing a performance.

> > On the subject of Shepherd on the Rock/Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, the
> > clarinet part of my copy doesn't include the name Schubert anywhere.
>
> I alway try to learn the clarinet part out of "partitur" and
> afterwards go to the clarinet part :-) If you do so You learn much
> more about the composition beside the persons who wrote the text :-))

It's a good habit -- though giving the piano part to your pianist to
practise is a good habit too:-)

I remember Thea King saying, to an uncomprehending student and a mostly
uncomprehending class, "You realise, don't you, that the composer *never
ever saw* what you have in front of you?"

Tony
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