Klarinet Archive - Posting 000089.txt from 2005/01

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] The Mozart Forgeries
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 12:26:47 -0500

David, that is very kind of you. Do you object to me including
this review in my collection? They all appear on my web site.
The bad reviews don't exist because those who wrote them are
having estate problems following the untimely deaths of the
contributors, many of whom seem simply to have disappeared from
the face of the earth, thus complicating problems of estate
resolution.

The thing I set out to do, even with something as fluffy as
fiction, was to give the reader (particularly clarinettists) a
thorough picture of the entire history of K. 622 and K. 581, at
least insofar as the source documents are concerned. I once got
a letter (in the days before email when letters were sent) in
which he asked me to create an edition of 622 for him using only
the original manuscript. He said something like, "I really don't
want to perpetuate all the nonsense that exists in editions
today." He never stated what were the nonsensical things that
needed to be eliminated and I never inquired, mostly because one
person's perfume is another person's skunk smell.

And while "The Mozart Forgeries" is not entirely an accurate
history of the work or the manuscripts, there is enough there to
alert most clarinet players that the problems run deep, even with
such exqisite music.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: David Glenn [mailto:davidglenn@-----.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 9:08 AM
To: Clarinet List
Subject: [kl] The Mozart Forgeries

Hi List,
My wife gave me "The Mozart Forgeries" by Dan Leesen for
Christmas and I
just finished reading it. Enjoyed it tremendously, being torn the
whole time
between a sympathy for Librarian and disgust in what they were
doing. At
first, I found the short chapters irritating. I wanted more. The
dialog
seemed somewhat stiff whereas the telling of the tale just flowed
from the
pen like wine out of a caraf. What's absolutely amazing, besides
the clever
plot and the very alert way in which everything was tied
together, was the
sheer amount of details which must have been researched for this
book. Dan,
are you sure you're not planning just such a caper?!
Ciao,
David

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