Klarinet Archive - Posting 000095.txt from 2009/01

From: "David Glenn" <davidglenn@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] K622/Schwenke, was Re: [kl] Speaking of the gran Partitta
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:52:48 -0500

Sorry, didn't finish one sentence:
Passages which divert from the Winterthur manuscript were changed to follow it.
David

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> Datum: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:50:15 +0100
> Von: "David Glenn" <davidglenn@-----.net>
> An: klarinet@-----.org
> Betreff: [kl] K622/Schwenke, was Re: [kl] Speaking of the gran Partitta

> Hi Dan,
>
> Haven't had much time for klarinet@-----.org lately so I only just saw this
> post.
>
> 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
>
>
>
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> > 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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