Klarinet Archive - Posting 000298.txt from 2006/03

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Info on Carl Maria von Weber & Grand Duo
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:04:49 -0500

Lorraine,
Are you near any university with a music school? If so, the school
should have a copy of GROVES DICTIONARY OF MUSIC. The article in there
is at least 15 pages long. There are other sources for Weber info.
However, they are mostly in music magazines, doctoral theses and other
encyclopedias. I recommend you contact a conservatory such as Peabody
or Juilliard and ask the librarian for help. It is even possible that
they will do an ILL (Inter-library loan) if they have a particularly
juicy book or article.
And, yes that IS why doctoral students are expected to have skills in
foreign languages. Face it: America is a relative Johnny-come-lately to
the classical music world and most scholarship has been done in Europe.
Just a fact of life. They are also closer to most of the primary source
material. We may be richer and more powerful but some things you just
can't be the best in.

Fred Jacobowitz

Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
Ebony and Ivory Duo
On Mar 15, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Lorraine wrote:

>
> I have been trying to research Weber for some time now and all my
> leads draw
> blanks. The only books in various libraries I have been able to find
> so far
> have been very dated.
>
> Imagine my excitement today when I discovered the Uni library had a
> brand
> new book on Weber just come in - until I opened it and discovered it
> was
> written in French! Alas I don't speak or read French.
>
> Why are nearly all the publications on Weber in foreign languages? I
> have
> searchd on Amazon as well and they are either very dated, or in a
> language
> other than English.
>
> I read that Weber wrote the Grand Duo for Hermstedt, not Baermann - I
> think
> I found this out via some information on this list somewhere - was it
> Jonathan Cohler who wrote this? Inside my copy - Boosey & Hawkes
> edition it
> says it was written for Baermann - is this just an assumption?
>
> Lorraine
>
>
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