Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 2009/01

From: "David Glenn" <davidglenn@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] K622/Schwenke, was Re: [kl] Speaking of the gran Partitta
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:50:15 -0500

Hi Dan,

Haven't had much time for klarinet@-----.

If you want to know exactly for which instruments the Schwenke arrangement of K622 is, you could ask Pamela Weston who edited a version of the Mozart Concerto for Universal in 1996 based on that very arrangement by Schwenke. Although she fills two pages ("Preface" and "Remarks Concerning this Edition"), it is never clear exactly for which instruments the arrangement was. In the preface, she states that the arrangement was published between 1799 and 1805 by Böhme of Hamburg and that Schwenke's manuscripts were auctioned in 1824. (where? to whom?). Passages which divert from the Winterthur manuscript.

Weston makes statements like "resolving inconsistencies" and "must be considered correct" which, unfortunately don't help at all. But the changes are fascinating, for instance mm 337-338 in the first mvt. are changed to rising thirds and fourths as found in mm 148-149. Could well be original. Or also not. It's all speculation, I know but I would also love to see the originall Schwenke arrangement.

David

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:05:48 -0800
> Von: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
> An: "Klarinet" <klarinet@-----.org>
> Betreff: [kl] Speaking of the gran Partitta

> 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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