Klarinet Archive - Posting 000551.txt from 2004/03
From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Authenticity in K622 - not wholly serious........
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:55:03 -0500
Matthew Lloyd wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Just playing but.....
>
> How can we say that Tony's recording is NOT authentic if we don't know
> what the manuscript says? It's unlikely, but he MIGHT have made the
> right choice in every single instance to reproduce what is in the mind
> of Mozart. It is, at least, logically possible.....
>
> I know that isn't what you meant - and I know more importantly what you
> mean - but I can't resist the temptation of the above. It's the
> philosophy graduate in me coming out.....
>
> No comment on Tony's recording to be inferred as none is implied. I
> haven't heard it for a long time as I only have it on LP, but don't own
> a turntable....
>
> Matthew Lloyd
Well Matthew, if you want to philosophize, consider this.
As Mozart was composition he made thousands of decisions as he wrote.
Which note, which dynamic, which articulation, etc.
To take this to an absolute extreme, in order for anyone ever to play
that work authentically, then all the thousands of decisions must be
duplicated perfectly, a mathematically impossible task.
But let us not bring this matter to a state where we are arguing about
angels on a pin. Without the mansucript to consult, we simply have no
way to conclude how much of the original text and all of the addenda
that gets piles on top of the text is correct. And I do not thinnk that
anyone can fall into a completely accurate text by accident. Even the
matter of where the low notes are used gives rise to many points of view.
I don't take away from anyone's playing by suggesting that the absence
of a manuscript is a serious impediment.
Dan
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