Klarinet Archive - Posting 000329.txt from 2008/11

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mitchell Lurie
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:34:32 -0500

Yes Keith. That is the aria that Mozart quotes in the supper scene of Don
Giovanni. It is "Non piu andrai." and when it appears as the third of the
three wind octet selections, Leporello turns to the audience and says, "I've
heard that one too often."

But there is no evidence that the stage wind octet was ever done with basset
horns. That would be contrary to the practice of the nobility having their
own wind octet, which would play opera arrangements for them. I have no
knowledge of any of the several private wind octets that used basset horns.
But that does not mean that you are forbidden to rig up that octet with
bassets playing the clarinet parts.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith" <bowenk@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 9:28 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Mitchell Lurie

> Dan,
>
>>But Edge also told me that in the 1787 second mounting of the opera, the
> aria where Cherubino i is sent off to the wars was rearranged (by Mozart?)
> in which the clarinet parts were replaced by basset horns. [Dan Leeson]
>
>
> Isn't that the bit that Mozart quotes of himself in the stage Harmonimusik
> band in Giovanni? So shouldn't we also play that on basset horns? Please?
>
> Keith
>
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