Klarinet Archive - Posting 000473.txt from 2003/12

From: "Keith" <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] RE: "Mozart" Cassazione?
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:53:10 -0500

Dan,

Thank you for the scholarly information. I acknowledge the debt. I have =
just
run out and bought a pizza and I will give it to you when we meet in
February :-). At which point Forest and I will regale you with the =
Masonic
basset horn music played on the tenor sax, tranposed up a tone of course =
to
be in the correct pitch. Remember to bring yours along for the trios.

Now, I suspect that your ire over the piece is not entirely unconnected =
with
the lousy Mozartian deception. If it had always been advertised as being =
by
thingummijig, you wouldn't mind so much. I found it quite fun to play
(except for the boring slow movement which was the giveaway) because it =
has
lots of clarinet flourishes that are much easier than they sound, so it
really helped my rep with the very good players that I was with!

Keith Bowen

<snip from Dan>
>> I know everything about that stupid piece, and it will cost a pizza=20
>> for this information. So you owe me.
>>
>> The Cassation quartet for oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon, was=20
>> allegedly discovered in 1910 by Albert J. Andrau, owner of the Andrau =

>> wind instrument music library. He was also the English hornist with=20
>> the Cinccinnati Symphony. He published the work in 1935 and when he=20
>> died his entire library of publication swas bought by Southern Music=20
>> in San Antonio, TX, I think. The Southern Music part is right, but=20
>> I'm not really sure about the San Antonio.
>>
>> First, Mozart never wrote a cassation. It's a particular form the=20
>> details of which don't matter now. Second, the piece has so many=20
>> characteristics that show it not to be by Mozart that I don't even=20
>> know where to begin.
>>
>> The Koechel catalog says (and I quote), "This work has nothing to do=20
>> with Mozart." I once got into a fight with the Southern Music Co.=20
>> about that piece. I had written an article saying that the work was=20
>> 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=20
>> been recorded by some very fine musicians, and then really know." So =

>> I wrote a letter back to Southern suggesting that they try an=20
>> anatomically impossible act and never heard from them again.
>>
>> To even consider playing that piece of junk requires you to do=20
>> pennance, so forget about it. Better you should play the Mozart =
tenor=20
>> sax concerto.

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