Klarinet Archive - Posting 000032.txt from 2005/09

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Re: Krommer Partitas (octets, nonets and 11 instruments with
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:05:14 -0400

Hi Nancy,

Sorry I didn't get to this until Sunday. We're in our mountain cabin near
Yosemite and I have only sporadic access to the Internet.

Poking around in Grove around 10 years ago I discovered the claim that
Krommer had composed 45 Partitas of which only 15 survive. A little more
poking around yielded the information that only 6 or 7 had been published
in the U.S. The Grove entry provided the information on the library which
holds the autographs of these pieces. A wonderful music librarian there
acquiesced to my request for a microfilm copy of the ones which I could not
otherwise get and over several months I sequenced all to which I had
access. I think all 15 are on my Web site, as is the Berwald, but "notes
only" (no articulation or dynamics). They can be downloaded, printed and
played at no charge. I work for money and can be talked into finishing the
Opus 76 in a timely manner and for a reasonable sum.

My Web address for you newcomers is

http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/clarmusi.htm

Oliver

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