Klarinet Archive - Posting 000314.txt from 2004/12

From: Simeon Loring <sloring1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mendelssohn Overture for Band
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:24:27 -0500

Hi:
To the best of my recollection, there were 11 instruments in the score
(which I haven't seen for about twenty years): fl, 2 ob, 2 clt in F, 2
fg, cfg, 2 hns in F, and tpt (I forget the key, but probably F).
Simeon
On Dec 18, 2004, at 9:44 PM, Elgenubi@-----.com wrote:

> Matthew asked about basset horns in this old band work. Dan Leeson
> answered
> that Mendelssohn did use basset horns. This makes me curious what
> other
> interesting instrumentation he used in this work. It dates from about
> 1825, right?
> Dan, or anyone, can you list the original instrumentation? C
> clarinets?
> Serpents? Fifes? What brass? Valved? This was before saxhorns, right?
>
> Wayne
>
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