Klarinet Archive - Posting 000131.txt from 2003/05

From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Clarinet
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 08:46:28 -0400

<< It is the absence of the manuscript that leaves questions about not only
the low notes in K. 622, but also the high ones. Did Mozart write for a
high G, as is often done in today's performances? >>

If I recall correctly, didn't Sussmayr, in his concerto fragment, write an
altissimo *C* for Stadler's basset clarinet? Which would suggest that
Mozart using high G is not at all an impossibility.

-- Joe

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