Klarinet Archive - Posting 000623.txt from 2005/03

From: millsworkman <millsworkman@-----.nz>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart Question-Dan Leeson?
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 02:50:05 -0500

Perhaps I'm being too literal with Chris' comment, but is there anything in
the suggestion that Mozart, or other composers of the era thought the
clarinet might replace the oboe? Seems extraordinary in retrospect.

Tim Workman

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher King [mailto:chrisking@-----.uk]
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:53 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Mozart Question-Dan Leeson?

Mozart added clarinets to the G minor Symphony no. 40 as an afterthought
retaining the oboes but modifying their parts accordingly. It seems that
composers at that time thought that clarinets might replace oboes entirely!!
Mozart used only oboes for his final C major statement in the Jupiter
Symphony (no.41) and as far as we know it was never revised.
As far as no.40 is concerned it has nearly always been the version for
clarinets that we have played; the version with oboes only being performed a
handful of times over a period of almost 4 decades

Chris King

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