Klarinet Archive - Posting 000477.txt from 2003/12

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: "Mozart" Cassazione?
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:07:34 -0500

You have hit the nail on the head. I become angry at people who find a
work and then advertise as Mozart's without the slightest reason for
doing so, except greed. If it goes under Mozart's name, it is going to
sell a lot better than if it goes under the name of Irving Liverwurst.

Dan

Keith wrote:
> 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
>>>for this information. So you owe me.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>
>
>
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