Klarinet Archive - Posting 000184.txt from 2008/12

From: "Bill Foss" <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] baroque clarinet
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:44:43 -0500

Don't forget about the six solo clarinet concertos composed in the mid-1740s
by Johann
Melchior Molter. They are "very" late baroque.

Bill Foss
U.S. Army Retired
USC Aiken, Woodwind Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Bassett" <bassettt1@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:01 PM
Subject: [kl] baroque clarinet

thanks. I have found a lot of transcriptions for clarinet such as the Oboe
Concerto in G minor by Handel and a Vivaldi suite in C minor but no pieces
actually for clarinet. Through the suggestions of people on this list, I
also found that Johann Stamitz (father of Carl) wrote a clarinet concerto
and I listened to it but it wasn't baroque enough for me. Actually, the
cadenza in the first movement very closely resembles Charles Niedich's
Cadenza in his performance of Introduction, Theme, and Variations by
Rossini. Since I haven't seen the actual music for the Stamitz, that lead
me to beleive that the performer wrote his own cadenza and got ideas from
Niedich's cadenza. I think it would be very interesting if Stamitz wrote
the Cadenza considering the years seperating his concerto and the Rossini
(and Charles Niedich). It sounds to me like the Cadenzas are nearly
interchangeable aside from the difference in Rythmic motifs. Does anyone
know anything?

Tom
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