Klarinet Archive - Posting 000145.txt from 2005/02

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: A bassethorn riddle
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:28:48 -0500

On 6 Feb, Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com> wrote:

> You explain quite well why your goal was to reproduce the actual event of
> the first performance. I still wonder if Mendelssohn would have preferred
> to have the parts on basset horns.

Wonder away.

He didn't prefer.

> Why else go through the trouble of having the parts?
>
> The reasoning for basset horns may have simply been a range issue from the
> original Bach score.

Not at all.

> I admit I am curious but not curious enough to go through both scores, so
> it would seem the question isn't that important to me.

Well, big deal. Now we all know something *really* important.

Tony
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