Klarinet Archive - Posting 000024.txt from 2006/12

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart Sinfonia Concertante
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:07:43 -0500

There is a great deal that is new about the work, but the basic
information about that authenticity of the version with clarinet
remains unchanged. It is highly unlikely that Mozart was
involved in the creation of that piece IN THAT FORM.

What is new is that Bob Levin did a reconstruction of the work
replacing the clarinet with the flute of the original. Now,
don't think that the flute simply plays the clarinet part. It's
not that at all. To get back to the original instrumentation, he
took the four solo parts (clarinet, oboe, horn, bassoon) and
reorganized the music to achieve the work's original
instrumentation (flute, oboe, horn, bassoon.).

He also did a significant alteration to the final movement to
eliminate all the orchestral ritornelli that separate variation
from variation, adding repeats on almost all the variations, and
rewriting the orchestral accompaniment completely..

His edition is available on rental and it has been recorded a
number of times.

While you say that it's a good work, you have to be more detailed
than that. There are very specific and unexplainable problmes
with that work in the clarinet version. Whoever did it, could not
compose, because it has anomolies in it that are so inconsistent
with 18th century music forms, that it could not have been
written by Mozart IN THAT FORM.

Bob Levin wrote a book about the matter called, "Who Wrote
Mozart's Sinfonie Concertante?" You need a really good library to
find it.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lytthans [mailto:lytthans@-----.net]
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 3:43 PM
To: Klarinet Digest (Mail)
Subject: [kl] Mozart Sinfonia Concertante

I'm doing the so-called Mozart Sinfonia Concertante next season
with one of
my orchestras, and would like some input on the recent historical
data on
whether Mozart actually wrote the work. Dan Leeson wrote an
interesting
article on the piece some time ago:

http://www.musicassociatesofamerica.com/madamina/1985/sinfonia.ht
ml

What's the lasted research on the work? I'd like to have the
program notes
as accurate as possible. IMHO, this work is not entirely by
Mozart, but is
good anyway.

Jim Lytthans
Anaheim, CA

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