Klarinet Archive - Posting 000422.txt from 2003/12

From: "fred.sheim" <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] "Mozart" Cassazione?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:48:45 -0500

NOW you've done it. I fell off my chair laughing!

At 12/23/2003 05:42 PM Tuesday, you wrote:
>fred.sheim wrote:
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>>I didn't know there was a Mozart Tenor Sax concerto. Could anyone lend
>>me the music ; )
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>Happy to, providing you have the needed tenor sax in A. Hardly known is
>the fact that Mozart used both texor saxes in B-flat and A based on the
>character of sound that he wanted. To support the robust voice of Don
>Giovanni, he uses the A instrument. But for the lighter duet sung by
>Zerlina and Mr. Clean he uses the tenor in B-flat. Once, in the opera The
>Hiccupping Dog, he used tenors in both A and B-flat at the same time.
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>I presumed that everyone knew this. It's fairly much common knowledge.
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>Dan
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>>At 12/23/2003 04:26 PM Tuesday, you wrote:
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>>>Keith wrote:
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>>>>Dan Leeson or anyone,
>>>>Last night I played a quartet for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon called
>>>>"Cassazione" (Cassation, I presume). The title said that it was by Mozart,
>>>>was discovered in 1910 and then published; it said edited, rather than
>>>>arranged or completed, and sorry I forget the author. No K number given. It
>>>>has four movements, with Polish and Turkish themes included. It's a
>>>>worthwhile piece to play, though we had doubts that it, or all of it, was
>>>>really by Mozart. Do you have any information on this piece? Much of it is
>>>>quite a fun play on the clarinet.
>>>>Keith Bowen
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>>>I know everything about that stupid piece, and it will cost a pizza for
>>>this information. So you owe me.
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>>>The Cassation quartet for oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon, was
>>>allegedly discovered in 1910 by Albert J. Andrau, owner of the Andrau
>>>wind instrument music library. He was also the English hornist with the
>>>Cinccinnati Symphony. He published the work in 1935 and when he died
>>>his entire library of publication swas bought by Southern Music in San
>>>Antonio, TX, I think. The Southern Music part is right, but I'm not
>>>really sure about the San Antonio.
>>>
>>>First, Mozart never wrote a cassation. It's a particular form the
>>>details of which don't matter now. Second, the piece has so many
>>>characteristics that show it not to be by Mozart that I don't even know
>>>where to begin.
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>>>The Koechel catalog says (and I quote), "This work has nothing to do
>>>with Mozart." I once got into a fight with the Southern Music Co. about
>>>that piece. I had written an article saying that the work was
>>>positively, absolutely not by Mozart and Southern music sent a letter of
>>>complaint to the publisher of the Magazine sayings something like, "Well
>>>what does your writer know about anything. Why this piece has been
>>>recorded by some very fine musicians, and then really know." So I wrote
>>>a letter back to Southern suggesting that they try an anatomically
>>>impossible act and never heard from them again.
>>>
>>>To even consider playing that piece of junk requires you to do pennance,
>>>so forget about it. Better you should play the Mozart tenor sax concerto.
>>>
>>>DAn
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>>>--
>>>Dan Leeson
>>>leeson0@-----.net
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>Dan Leeson
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