Klarinet Archive - Posting 000093.txt from 2006/02

From: "Keith" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] That's music?
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:28:03 -0500

Rien

>Didn't Weber write some terribly very commercial tear jerkers for our=20
beloved instruments? He wrote his Konzertst=FCcke opus 113 and 114 for=20
clarinet, bassethorn and piano, but what are they else then =
oversentimental,

even in the romantic view? Yet I like, not to say: love them.

That was Mendelssohn. And the story is that he wrote them for the =
Baermann
brothers, who were noted pastry chefs, on a wager that he could write a
piece for them in the time it would take them to bake some pastries for =
him.
He did, they did and everyone was happy.

A worthy motive - earning his bread, well anyway, his pastry!

I don't know how you recognize a piece of music as "oversentimental", =
apart
from songs/arias that have words. What characteristics would it possess? =
The
pieces do possess straightforward classical/romantic characteristics. I =
love
them but have never felt remotely tempted to tears by them, too busy =
trying
to get all the notes out on the bassethorn!

Keith Bowen

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