Klarinet Archive - Posting 000138.txt from 2003/05

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Clarinet
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:13:22 -0400

As far as I remember, there is no documented use of any note higher than
e above high c, and that occurs only once. His normal highest note was
high d and that occurs several times. The high e occurs in the theme
and variations movement of the Gran Partitta.

A more interesting problem is which high notes from high e down does he
NOT use. I once examined the manuscripts of every Mozart work in which
a clarinet is employed (manuscripts, not scores, because I wanted only
his opinion, not some editor's opinion of what he might have meant), and
I don't think I found any except the low c-sharp down in the basset range.

Dan

Ed Wojtowicz wrote:
> Dan-
>
> In your extensive knowledge of Mozart and the clarinet, would you have any
> comments or input on Mozart's use of the upper register in other works?
>
> Ed
>
>
>>From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
>>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>>Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 11:05:41 -0700
>>To: klarinet@-----.org
>>Subject: Re: [kl] Basset Clarinet
>>
>>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? I doubt it but I
>>don't know. It is a problem that, in my opinion, will never be solved
>>unless someone discovers the manuscript hiding under a rock.
>
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