Klarinet Archive - Posting 000430.txt from 2003/12

From: "fred.sheim" <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] "Mozart" Cassazione?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:12:39 -0500

I didn't know there was a Mozart Tenor Sax concerto. Could anyone lend me
the music ; )

At 12/23/2003 04:26 PM Tuesday, you wrote:
>Keith wrote:
>>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
>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>DAn
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>Dan Leeson
>leeson0@-----.net
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