Klarinet Archive - Posting 000814.txt from 2003/03

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rossini/Schubert Offertorium
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:11:31 -0500

The ICA certainly has a copy. I donated it to them. And you are right,
it is a remarkable work, but is, in my opinion, a composition that works
only with the C clarinet. The B-flat instrument does not have the
correct character in the range requested.

Dan

DGross1226@-----.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/21/2003 1:17:05 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay) writes:
>
> <<Not so interesting as the other, and much shorter, but worthwhile if you've
> a clarinet in C, like the Schubert Offertorium for cl, soprano and little
> orchestra,
> which is a gem.>>
>
> Tony,
>
> Is that the Schubert offertorium "Totus in corde lanqueo," Op. 36? I
> believe it is. If so, then the International Clarinet Association library at
> the University of Maryland has a piano reduction by Wolfgang Gabriel for Bb
> clarinet, soprano, and piano in its collection, and it's available for ICA
> members to borrow. While our "trio" has yet to perform it, we have read it
> and it is indeed a gem.
>
> Don Gross
> La Canada, California
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