Klarinet Archive - Posting 000189.txt from 2004/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart's favorite(s)?
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 06:22:36 -0500

At 09:41 PM 1/6/2004 -0800, Gary Van Cott wrote:
>Interesting you should mention this subject. This morning as I was taking
>my daughter to school, I heard a piece on the radio, clearly Mozart, for
>winds and piano. I probably should have been aware of it, but apparently
>the piano kept it off my collection of all of Mozart's wind music. From
>the announcer's description I believe it was: Quintet In E Flat For Piano
>And Winds K.452 (oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn).
>
>I thought it was a great piece of music and the announcer said (on what
>authority I do not know) something to the effect that it was one of
>Mozart's favorites at that point in his career.

I have an old Music Minus One LP with that on it (and the Beethoven Op. 16
Quintet). Very pleasant work, and not difficult to play.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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