Klarinet Archive - Posting 000060.txt from 2008/12

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta, again
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:54:25 -0500


Bear Woodson writes:

> Hello, Everyone.
>
> I have a few questions about the Gran Partitta, as I've
> been listening to it again. (I've got the CD by the Marlboro
> Ensemble with the Mozart Sonata for Bassoon and Cello.)
>
> The Second Movement has 2 Trios, and it sounds like
> Laughing Boy wrote a few phrases that Change Meters
> in the Second Trio. Is that correct? (I'm guessing that Mr.
> Leeson would know more about that, as I do not have a
> score of this work.) I'd have to go listen again, but just off
> the top of my head, I think he had another Changing Meters
> passage later in the work, perhaps in the 5th or 6th
> Movements.

There are no meter changes in the second movement, or anywhere else in the
piece.

> I'm also wondering if they routinely print Alternate
> Part Books to replace the 2 Basset Horns, which are so
> rare and expensive these days, with the more commonly
> available Alto E-Flat Clarinets, or even 2 B-Flat Bass
> Clarinets. (I'm guessing that Mr. Van Cott would know
> something about that.) As popular as the work is, I'm sure
> that a lot of Alto and Bass players would LOVE to play
> this work!

Every edition that I can think of provides clarinet parts to replace the
basset horn pair. (But if you play the work that way, all your hair will
fall out!!)

>
> I'm also wondering if there are Adjusted Versions of the
> Double Bass Part, to better accommodate the Lower
> Written Range of a Contra Bassoon.

No. There no adjusted version of the contra basso part. (And if you use a
contrabassoon, your teeth will fall out!)

>
> While I'm asking, the Program Notes in that CD refer to
> 3 additional, spurious Mozart Bassoon Concerti, one in C
> and the other 2 in Bb. I remember many years ago reading
> that one catalogue listed Haydn as having FOUR Cello
> Concerti, of which the D Major has been frequently played
> since his lifetime, and the C Major was discovered some-
> time around the 1960's, and immediately became famous.
> The other 2 Haydn Cello Concerti are still missing, but I'm
> sure they'd be cherished, if ever found. Likewise, I'm
> wondering how Authentic that claim was of Mozart having
> 3 more missing Bassoon Concerti. Does anyone know
> more about this?

There is no evidence to support any claim that Mozart wrote 3 additional
basson concerti. And if you spread such a rumor, your sex life will
disappear entirely.

Dan Leeson

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