Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 2005/01

From: Nick Shackleton <njs5@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Klocker
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:24:32 -0500

I had not intended to get involved in this discussion but can't keep out. A
week or so ago Dan Leeson very sensibly said we should look in Grove and
Keith Bowen made a caustic remark about not being interested in secondary
sources. Grove 6 has an excellent (well, it seems to me as an amateur to be
excellent) article by Eva Badura-Skoda on "Cadenza" which introduces us and
quotes from some of the myriad primary sources (most of us would have no
idea where to find the primary sources, how to evaluate them, which ones
are significant, without this kind of help). To me the important point is
that Dan has repeatedly told us what he believes a well-behaved and
obedient player in Mozart's time would have done. The Grove article reminds
us that (a) time does not stand still, and (b) players are not (and never
were) all the same and are not all obedient to the "rules" of the time. We
do not have any idea whether Stadler would have behaved as Dan would like;
certainly not everybody did. More important, because the discussion is not
about Mozart but about Klocker's recordings of other music by several
composers, fashions were changing and different players reacted in
different ways. Clearly there were players in Mozart's time who Dan would
disapprove of based on the rules he has learned. If Klocker does the same
we are free not to like it but I don't think we should be prejudiced not to
like it because he doesn't follow a particular source.
Nick

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