Klarinet Archive - Posting 000568.txt from 2003/05

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Clarinet
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 01:25:05 -0400

It is interesting that you mention this. Mozart most frequently hired a
copyist who worked in his home, and for two reasons. One, he wanted to
supervise his work, and two, he wanted to avoid the man making a second
copy that he might sell to an unscrupulous music publisher and which
nullified Mozart's efforts to make money on the piece.

James Hobby wrote:
>>OK. So the chain of events is (1) Mozart's head to his hand to create
>>the manuscript, (2) the use of that manuscript to make a set of
>>performance parts, (3) the use of those performance parts to make the
>>first printed edition.
>
>
> Actually, I understand that unless the composer makes his/her own set of
> parts, mistakes can be made in the first set of performance parts by the
> copist. Regretably, everyone can make a mistake. In this case, the
> unfortunate part is that it's apparently "unfixable".
>
> Jim
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