Klarinet Archive - Posting 000622.txt from 2003/04

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: K622 instrumentation
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:39:18 -0400

The size of the Mozartean orchestra is an issue that is discussed at
length in Zaslaw's book on the Mozart' symphonies.

Four first violins would be a general standard for a total of 12 strings
(4-3-2-2-1). Yet as a kid, I saw the NY Phil. under Bruno Walter do the
Jupiter symphony with a Mahler sized orchestra and presumed that that
was the standard.

Dan

Matthew Lloyd wrote:
> But what would Mozart have called a "large" orchestra? Isn't that the
> question?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Howe [mailto:arehow@-----.net]
> Sent: 17 April 2003 04:40
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Re: K622 instrumentation
>
> What a bizarre thread. In fact, the Copland Concerto is scored for
> strings,
> piano, harp and solo clarinet. The Mozart, for pairs of flutes,
> bassoons,
> horns and strings. It is not necessarily better to use a small string
> section, as Mozart is known to have liked large orchestras.
>
> Any orchestra that had a trumpet and horn playing in the Copland
> concerto
> has some very serious problems. I cannot entirely believe the original
> writer of this thread, because I can't believe that an artist of David
> Shifrin's caliber would appear in public under such straits.
>
> Robert Howe
>
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