Klarinet Archive - Posting 000025.txt from 2006/12

From: Don Yungkurth <chalumeau@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart Sinfonia Concertante
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:17:31 -0500

Dan Leeson, in his reply to Jim Lytthans about the Mozart Sinfonia
Concertante said:

>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.).

I will try to get Levin's book about this work, which Dan mentioned, but
wondered about Dan's indication of the original instrumentation as for
flute, oboe, horn and bassoon. I seem to recall that this
instrumentation was mentioned by Mozart in a letter to his father, but
that no manuscript survives.

If that is correct, and the present Levin or other clarinet versions are
clearly not Mozart's work, how do we know anything whatsoever about the
instruments that might have been called for by whoever did compose it?
I assume there is no manuscript known by someone other than Mozart
either.

Don Yungkurth

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