Klarinet Archive - Posting 000500.txt from 2003/12

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart 487
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:00:37 -0500

I do have a recording of this on the Philips Complete Mozart Edition
Serenades and Diverttmenti for Winds (Philips 422 635-2). They are played
by horns. There are a lot of great pieces on this 6 cd set for clarinet
and basset horn, but as Dan has noted, this isn't one of them.

Gary
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At 10:59 AM 12/25/03, you wrote:
>Rachael and David Orbach wrote:
>>Does anyone know of the K number of the Mozart op487 for two basset
>>horns? It is published in the Langegues virtuoso book III. Is there a
>>recording of this duet? I have a student who is going to use this for
>>her high school diploma in clarinet performance here in Israel.
>> Rachael Orbach
>
>Rachel, the K. listing for those duets (but don't go away because they are
>not for two basset horns) is K. 487 with a later K. listing of K.
>496a. There are no Mozart opus numbers. The number that you probably
>extracted from the Langenus book is the K. number.
>
>However, those duets are for French horns, not basset horns. I suspect
>that the edition you have says basset horns because for years no one
>believed that they could be executed on French horns. There is a ton of
>musicological material on them, but I'll present the shortened version:
>basset horns, NO; French horns, yes. The Langenus book is from the era
>when the speculation was made that they were for basset horns. Langenus
>must be 75 years old now.
>
>Now that does not mean that your student should not play them. Be my
>guest, a bei gezunt. Enjoy them for whatever they are. But call a spade a
>spade.
>
>I have never heard a recording of them, but that is useless information
>because there is a great deal of Mozart's music that has been recorded but
>which I have never heard.
>
>Dan Leeson
>
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