Klarinet Archive - Posting 000114.txt from 2005/01

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Will some kind soul ...
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:47:33 -0500

Would it have been a normal practice for Mozart himself to have written
out the manuscript parts from the autograph? If he did, then we have a
reliable source. If this is correct, one is then able to create a new
score just as reliable as the autograph (though it isn't in Mozart's
hand) and we have original source information. Obviously it would be
unassailable if we had the autograph, but our primary concern for
performance must be original source material above all. Wouldn't the
manuscript parts be original material?

Even if Mozart himself didn't copy out the parts from his score, there
would have been extremely few errors (yes, I know I'm assuming). But
there is no reason to assume a copyist trusted by Mozart would have made
errors and every reason to assume Mozart would have checked the parts or
remedied them after he heard them played by Stadler and his orchestra?

Audrey

dnleeson wrote:

>So then, what is this "manuscript" that they used to prepare the
>1801 edition? And the only thing that makes any sense is that
>the "manuscript" to which they were referring was the set of
>performance parts prepared FROM the autograph around 1791. They
>certainly were "manuscript parts" but they were not THE
>MANUSCRIPT. They were simply copied out from the autograph.
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