Klarinet Archive - Posting 000099.txt from 2007/07

From: Simeon Loring <sloring1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] A little history please
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:39:39 -0400

philomusica.unipv.it/annate/ 2004-5/saggi/sirchhowey/index.html - 69k
for some of the history of Il Convegno
Simeon
On Jul 12, 2007, at 7:43 AM, Fred wrote:

> 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
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> 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.
>>
>> Where did this work come from? He or she should get a prize.
>>
>> Dan Leeson
>> DNLeeson@-----.net
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