Klarinet Archive - Posting 000494.txt from 2004/09
From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] A little Monday morning present for all
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:45:10 -0400
I think that the simplest solution is that Mozart forget what he
used as the desination of the keyboard instrument in the first
movement. Remeber that he only wrote instrument names on the
first page of every movement. There is no evidence that the piece
was written out in one go. So it could have been a week before
he got to the movements where, for whatever reason, he decided to
call the piano a cembalo.
Sabine Meyer hasn't a leg to stand on if she concludes that the
clarinet part really needs a basset horn. I don't care if she
wants to play it on a tenor sax, but she is going to have to do a
lot of explaining to convince anyone who knows their stuff that
Mozart wanted a basset horn in that piece. After all, he was
writing for the basset horn in music as ar back at Abduction from
Harem, so one cannot argue that he did not have a basset horn
when he came to 498. But then again, Meyer plays 361 with a
contrabassoon, which is wickedly wrong, contraindicated, and just
plain obstinate. I'm sure she will play it beautifully no matter
what instrument is chosen, but she insults the intelligence of
every clarinetist by these arbitrary substitutions that have no
basis in historical validity.
Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net
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From: CGBeale@-----.com]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 11:31 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] A little Monday morning present for all
Thanks, Dan, for the link to the Kegelstatt Trio manuscript.
I looked at the instrumentation specified at the beginning of
each movement. For the second and third movements the keyboard
part is specified as "cembalo". However, it looks like the
keyboard part for the first movement was originally labeled
"forte" and that the word "piano" was later written above it.
Maybe the other way around. Why the difference between the
keyboard names at the beginning of the three movements? Did
Mozart use pianoforte and cembalo interchangeably?
Recently, I got a notice from the Library of Congress that on Feb
23 a concert will be given at the Coolidge Auditorium by Sabine
Meyer/Trio di Clarone with Kalle Randalu, piano. I was surprised
to find the following on the program: Mozart: Trio in E-flat
Major, K. 498 ("Kegelstatt") for Clarinet, Basset Horn, and
Piano.
Clarence Beale
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