Klarinet Archive - Posting 000514.txt from 2003/05

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Clarinet
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 00:45:40 -0400

I do not know. I was advised there was such an edition but have never
seen it. I was told that Hacker has made some interesting remarks about
the basset clarinet serving the same mode as a low horn player. I can't
comment never having seen the remarks but that appears to be his view.

For those unfamiliar with the history involved, horn players of the 18
and 19th centuries normally specialized in low horn or high horn parts.

Dan

Matthew Lloyd wrote:
> Alan Hacker has edited an edition???? Who publishes it?
>
> I remember seeing him play the Quintet at the Wigmore hall over twenty
> years ago!
>
> Matthew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> Sent: 21 May 2003 14:35
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Basset Clarinet
>
> Bärenreiter, the publisher of the complete edition of Mozart's music
> (begun in 1956 and still going on now, though most of it is completed)
> has one volume devoted entirely to K. 622. It consists of two editions,
>
> one for the traditional clarinet, the other for basset clarinet.
>
> The basset clarinet edition is the editor's opinion of how the piece
> should played on a basset clarinet. He has invented whole passages to
> take advantage of the basset notes. There is certainly nothinig bad
> about this edition. But there is also nothing authoritative about it
> either. What Mozart actually wrote for the basset clarinet is not only
> not known, it will almost certainly never be known, barring the
> rediscovery of the manuscript.
>
> If I had a basset clarinet and wanted to play 622, I'd almost certainly
> use that edition along with the one put out by Alan Hacker plus a
> comment made about the low notes in a recent article in The Clarinet.
>
> Dan
>
> Matthew Lloyd wrote:
>
>>Baerenter sell the version I was thinking of in their "Urtext" range
>>
>>Don't tell me it's dreadful Dan - as I have already spent my tenner
>>replacing my historic schoolboy version (which was just in poor
>
> nick)!!!
>
>>(Actually Dan - and anyone else - do tell me as I am interested in any
>>views)
>>
>>Matthew Lloyd
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Matthew Lloyd [mailto:Matthew@-----.uk]
>>Sent: 06 May 2003 18:32
>>To: klarinet@-----.org
>>Subject: [kl] Basset Clarinet
>>
>>I can recall seeing a score with the solo part reconstructed. I know
>>that Dan would suggest that this is a matter for the performer, and of
>>course he is quite right.
>>
>>What does the Neue Mozart Ausgabe show in the solo part on the last
>>edition out? If the NMA doesn't show the reconstruction, who does?
>>
>>Does Dan have anything learned to say about the question generally? It
>>is something that I would like to look at more but would appreciate a
>>starting point.
>>
>>Matthew Lloyd
>>
>>
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