Klarinet Archive - Posting 000856.txt from 2004/10

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart, Don Giovanni, and Tony Pay
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:00:23 -0400

Keith, I have never seen a picture of Stadler holding his basset
clarinet in Riga. The only picture I know if is a drawing of the
instrument itself. Can you tell me to what picture you are
referring?

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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From: Keith [mailto:100012.1302@-----.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 7:12 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Mozart, Don Giovanni, and Tony Pay

Tony

There is (at least) one other concerto written for the basset
clarinet (or
clarinet with a few extra notes..), by Sussmayr. It is a
completion,
recently published (I don't have the copy to hand as I am out of
the
country). But Sussmayr is the last person to object to
completions, isn't
he?

Re supporting the instrument. As I recollect, the engraving of
Stadler at
Riga shows him just holding it without support. Dan? I could not
do this
with my modern basset clarinet; the wood is heavier and the the
keywork much
heavier. I use a sling with a chest support.

Keith Bowen

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> If the *bassett* came first, then where is the bassett`s other
music,
> the repertoire, for this instrument? Stadler must have
invested some
> pennies into it`s design and manufacture. He would have wanted
more
> than just one piece of music to help him recoup his investment.
He was
> after all a skin-flint - he didn`t pay Mozart for the concerto.

> Tony W.
>
>

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