Klarinet Archive - Posting 000552.txt from 2004/03

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart K622 "urtext" edition (basset notes)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:59:58 -0500

David Glenn wrote:

>> The manuscript had disappeared by the time of the creation of the
>> first edition and an editor chose deliberately to edit out any
>> basset notes that may have existed. I say, "may have" because we
>> really don't know for sure if Mozart used them or where. - snip -
>>
>> Dan Leeson
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Dan,
>
> Do you really think that the evidence is not conclusive that there
> were basset notes in the K622 manuscript? What about the review in
> the Allgemeinen Musikalischen Zeitung of 1802 which quotes changed
> passages to accomodate the "short" A clarinet? That in combination
> with the evidence that Stadler owned and played on a basset A
> clarinet? The Winthertur manuscript?

The Winterthur mansucripts is for basset horn not basset clarinet. And
you don't have to convince me that it is almost certain that Mozart used
the basset notes. But neither you or I "KNOW" what he wrote.
>
> There is hardly any evidence that I know of that K622 was composed
> for a "short" clarinet aside from that first edition. The AmZ review
> negates that conclusively for me.
>
> Well, after writing this down, I guess I see that you're right after
> all. The evidence as i see it only amounts to about a 99.9% chance
> that K622 was composed for a basset instrument. But hey! You know,
> people have been convicted of pizza theft on less evidence! David
>
You approach a slippery slope here. The moment you hypothesize what he
wrote to create an edition, you get your ideas mixed up with truth. You
could be right, and you could be wrong.

I don't know why we are arguing. I am simply stating a truth: WE DON'T
KNOW WHAT HE WROTE AT ALL EXCEPT AT A GROSS LEVEL. So stop interpreting
what I am saying as heresy. I add, that this very matter is the subject
of my novel, which I expect out by March of next year.

Dan

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