Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 2010/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Schumann 3rd Symphony
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:03:13 -0500

Last night we read through the Schumann "Rhenish" Symphony. We used a set of
old parts
- I think Schirmer but I'm not sure. Inside the title page of the first
clarinet part was a note saying, paraphrased (I don't have the part to quote
it exactly), that some slight editing had been done to avoid notes in the
original that are not available on modern clarinets. Were basset (extended)
clarinets like those Mozart composed for still in use by 1850? If not, what
notes would have been on clarinets of Schumann's time and place that we
don't have available now (and weren't available in the last century when the
edition was published)? The note suggested that octave transpositions were
involved for a few notes.

Does anyone know what might have been involved?

TIA

Karl Krelove

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