Klarinet Archive - Posting 000318.txt from 2005/02

From: "sarah elbaz" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] composer's intentions
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:30:18 -0500

Performers should be open minded and full of imagination and try everything. The only way to know if an arrangement works is to play it. Have you heard the Beethoven violin concerto played on the clarinet?
The idea is so brilliant! Also Rampal played the clarinet concerto by Mozart.
I think that Mozart and Beethoven wouldn't mind a good performance.
Sarah Elbaz

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> From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
> Subject: RE: [kl] composer's intentions
> Sent: 22 Feb 2005 16:12:56
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> I don't know the answer to your question: "What about the many
> clear cases of compsoers rearranging pieces themselves?"
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> OK, then.  What about them?
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> Does that mean that if Hindemith authorized something to be done
> on his bassoon sonata, that justifies you or me or my uncle max
> using an accordion in a Mozart piano sonata under the assertion
> that "If he had an accordion, he would have used one."  That's
> chancy history.
>
> Are there no limitations to the arbitrary alteration of someone
> else's work?  Can I draw a moustache on the Venus di Milo because
> it looks good to me?  Why not?  Da Vinci put moustaches on his
> paintings of men.
>
> Peter, I expect much better hypotheses and arguments from you.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Stoll [mailto:peterstoll2000@-----.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:22 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] composer's intentions
>
>
> What about the many clear cases of composers
> rearranging pieces themselves?:
>
> -Hindemith personally authorizing transcription of the
> Bassoon Sonata for bass clarinet
> -Prokofiev rearranging the Flute Sonata for violin
> -Khatchaturian authorizing transcribing the Violin
> Concerto for flute? (according to Rampal's liner
> notes)
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> =====
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