Klarinet Archive - Posting 000729.txt from 2003/06

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Distelhorst
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 02:51:15 -0400

Disappointed by the nil response to my request,
Worldcat revealed the reason. There are only two
copies of this book in the Universe and one is locked in a safe.

The following information was provided by Worldcat
Walter Distelhorst's (1886-?) 'Clarinet Chamber-Music Repertory'
is Chapter 7 in Volume III of a book called "Dramatic
Soprano of the Woodwind". A copy (1953) is kept locked in
the safe in the Archive Room at the University of Louisville,
School of Music Library. It is typed and hand-written and has 89 (?)
leaves with interleaved concert programmes, postcards, letters and
newspaper clippings, and has been put in a spring binder.
It is an extension of the first version that was deposited
in the Library of Congress in 1946.

Louisville resident Walter Distelhorst for over 50 years
gave all the time he could spare from his business to the
pursuit of clarinet playing and repertory. This is intended for clarinet
enthusiasts interested in classical ensemble repertoire for clarinet.
Access is restricted. Scholars interested in clarinet repertory
may view_but_not_copy_. Researchers apply to Head Music Librarian.

First version deposited in the Library of Congress:
LC Shelfmark: ML128.C58, LC Accession No 19880518
Clarinet chamber-music repertory. From chap. 7, v. 2 of the note-book
of Walter Distelhorst. Louisville [1946?] 37 leaves. 29 cm. (LC card
47-28337*).
Organization: Typescript book organized into
(1) an alphabetical index of composers,
(2) paragraphs on composers and their works in chronological order,
(3) composers without dates in alphabetical order,
(4) compositions listed with their composers by ensembles,
(5) list of miscellaneous works, mostly in ms. form, produced by composers
in Hollywood.

Material largely superseded by clarinet music bibliographies of Errante,
Gee,
Gillespie, Heim, Opperman, and Wilkins.

End of story, I think.
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Michael Bryant
Homepage: The Constant Clarinet
www.bryant14.demon.co.uk

Errare humanum est
Nec cede malis

telephone and fax +44 (0) 20 8390 3236

Michael Bryant
Homepage: The Constant Clarinet
www.bryant14.demon.co.uk

Errare humanum est
Nec cede malis

telephone and fax +44 (0) 20 8390 3236

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