Klarinet Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 2007/07

From: Fred <fred.sheim@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] A little history please
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:43:24 -0400

About 20 years ago Jerry Pierce sent me a photocopy of the Ricordi
edition of "Il Convegno - Divertimento per due Clarnetti con Accomp.
di Piano Forte" dedicated to A. Peri e M. Sacchi. The number 86604
appears on the cover. It is in the large page format and has no date
on it, but the cover is ornate like the music of the late 1800's. I
could send a scan of the cover on my website if anyone is interested
in seeing it. The price as printed on the cover was 10
lire!! Maybe this would provide some clues?

Fred

At 10:33 AM 7/11/2007, you wrote:
>Il Covegno is a work that appears suddenly to have come from
>nowhere. I can't remember a single performance of the
>composition until perhaps a decade ago. Is this charming work a
>new discovery?
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>It is clear that rediscovered old works are coming into the
>repertoire more and more frequently, so when did Il Covegno
>arrive and who is the person to whom we should be indebted for
>having dragged it out of some dusty archive or library?
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>A search on the www came up with 1000 hits but only the first 10
>had anything of real importance and not one of those spoke of the
>origin of the work. David Hite did an arrangement in San Antonio
>in 1991 and one player gave a master class in Italy with it (and
>the Mendelssohn concertpieces) more recently.
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>Where did this work come from? He or she should get a prize.
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>Dan Leeson
>DNLeeson@-----.net
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