Klarinet Archive - Posting 000478.txt from 2003/12

From: mginesi@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: "Mozart" Cassazione?
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:23:10 -0500

unless of course it's
Irving Mozart

by the way what's so offensive about Livervurst's 'E' Mustarde' - a very
spicy piece!

michael
> 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.
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> Dan
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> Keith wrote:
> > Dan,
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> > 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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