Klarinet Archive - Posting 000136.txt from 2003/05

From: "Joseph H. Fasel" <jhf@-----.gov>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Clarinet
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 09:45:17 -0400

or else that Süssmayr was incompetent ;-)

--Joe

On 2003.05.07 06:46 Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> << 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.
>

Joseph H. Fasel, Ph.D. email: jhf@-----.gov
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