Klarinet Archive - Posting 000624.txt from 2005/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart Question-Dan Leeson?
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:50:44 -0500

I don't think anyone wanted to replace the oboe with the
clarinet. It was rather the opportunity for an additional voice
in the wind choir. There may also have been the issue of the
paucity of good oboe players. But even in the g minor symphony,
the clarinets do not replace the oboes, they supplement them.
Both pairs of oboe AND clarinets are needed for the second
version of the g minor.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: millsworkman [mailto:millsworkman@-----.nz]
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 11:49 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Mozart Question-Dan Leeson?

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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