Klarinet Archive - Posting 000282.txt from 2007/03

From: "Angelia Fagg" <arfagg@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] RE: Mendelssohn
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:17:12 -0400


I'd also like to say thanks for the info on the Mendelssohn sonata. I've
been working on it off and on for a month or so, and finding it rather
boring (except for the slow movement, which is gorgeous). After sight
reading the first movement, I found very few things I really needed to work
on, and my sight reading skills are NOT that good. I found an article about
it in one of my old Clarinet magazines (vol. 29, No. 2, March 2002, page 70,
article by John Michael Cooper), and there is a picture of the first page of
the autograph score, in Mendelssohn's hand. The main idea of the article
seems to be that it was basically an experiment by a developing composer (he
was 15 at the time!). I'm still wondering why Schirmer decided to put it in
the Masterworks book with both Brahms sonatas and Weber's Duo Concertant!

Angelia

P.S. The picture credit in the article says that the autograph is in the
Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. Their website is at
www.morganlibary.org if you want to get more info.

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