Klarinet Archive - Posting 000540.txt from 2003/03

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinet Facts and some fun History
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:05:02 -0500

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> From: JCountDown@-----.com]
> The basset horn is a type of clarinet usually pitched in F. This was =
the=20
> instrument which Mozart composed his Clarinet Concerto=20

I don't think this is quite true. While the Winterthur Fragment (KV =
584b)is sketched out for a basset horn in G (not F) it is not complete. =
The Clarinet Concerto (KV 622) is generally thought to have been =
composed for a basset clarinet (one extending down to a low C) pitched =
in A.

Mark C.=20

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