Klarinet Archive - Posting 000626.txt from 2005/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart Question-Dan Leeson?
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:34:54 -0500

If your statement below suggests the replacement of oboes with
clarinet in the specific case of the g minor symphony, he did
indeed significantly modify the oboe parts in order to give
several important solo passages to the clarinets, though in the
first version the oboes had those passage.

And Robbins Landon is quite correct in suggesting the that second
version of the g minor came almost immediately after the first.

But beyond those two points, I don't know what else I can say to
be of help to you.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

My information came from one source - the preface to my score of
the G minor
Symph. written by Gordon Jacob, an English composer and professor
of
composition. I cannot find any other reference anywhere else so
better
forget that one.
I did not suggest that clarinets replaced oboes but that Mozart
modified the
oboe parts to accommodate their inclusion.
According to H.C.Robbins Landon in his book on Mozart's last year
the
revisions seem to have been made almost immediately after
completing the
autograph.

Chris King

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