Klarinet Archive - Posting 000143.txt from 2008/12

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Speaking of the gran Partitta
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:05:48 -0500

I finally got hold of an arrangement of K. 361 by C.F.G.Schwencke. The
arranger was a composer, editor, keyboard player, and a replacement for
C.P.E. Bach as Standkantor in Hamburg in 1788.

The edition is published in a modern printing by Edition HH in London
(http://www.editionhh.co.uk), and the editor of this modern edition was no
less than Christopher Hogwood.

All 7 movements are part of the arrangement, which is for oboe (or clarinet
or flute or violin), violin, cello, and piano. A long and very well done
preface in both English and German will satisfy the curious. The arrangement
originally had a third trio for the second minuet, but it was removed for
this publication. The presence of this extraneous piece of music shows that
the Schenke arrangement was made from the first edition of K. 361 done in
Vienna in 1803, which also had this irrelevant trio stuck in, as if the work
didn't have enough trios.

The clarinet part is in C, and no b-flat transposed part is available.

Schwenke is said to have made a transcription of K. 622 for piano quintet,
but the precise instrumentation is not given.

Dan Leeson

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