Klarinet Archive - Posting 000369.txt from 2006/04

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] New pieces for basset-horn
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:37:23 -0400

Of course, one should hunt that concertante of Soliva down, but I
have a fundmental skepticism about the use of basset horn in
place of a French horn (or vice versa) simply because both are in
F and/or both contain the name "horn" as part of the title of the
instrument.

Depending on the character of the French horn part, the use of a
basset horn may be counter- indicated. To show you how far this
sort thing can go, there is some evidence that Sussmayr, the guy
who completed the Mozart Requiem, thought that a basset horn was
a French horn, and he wrote the parts that he wrote with that
kind of an instrument in mind.

I used to play a lot of English horn music because it was in F
and the name "horn" made me all goofy. But most of the stuff
just never worked. Try the Hindemith English horn sonata on a
basset horn. It is all wacky when played that way.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Laurence Beckhardt [mailto:lbeckhardt@-----.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 6:01 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] New pieces for basset-horn

Here's a link to an interesting website with some free
sheet music downloads of obscure composers. Included
is a Concertante for clarinet, horn and piano by
Soliva (?) based on Mozart themes (the MP3 clip is a
theme from Don Giovani). There's also a substitute
basset horn part for the horn. In addition, there are
a couple of partitas by Genser (early Harmonie?).

http://www.musicastorica.com

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