Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 2010/01

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Schumann 3rd Symphony
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:25:17 -0500

Hi Karl,

Not only were the basset notes of the basset clarinet no known in 1850s, any
attempt to suggest that the clarinet of Mozart's ear had such notes were
denied. As late as around 1930, an English musicologist said that Mozart
apparently did not know the lower range of the clarinet, an opinion formed
by looking at the manuscript of Cosi fan tutte.

Dan Leeson
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From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 4:03 PM
Subject: [kl] Schumann 3rd Symphony

> 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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