Klarinet Archive - Posting 000074.txt from 2010/03

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wenzel Fuchs and his arrangement with Mozart
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:21:10 -0400

Actually the volume of the Peters edition that contains the string quintet
version of K. 361, has broken the work up into two separate quintets. One
consists of movements 1, 2, 3 and 7, while the other is a pastiche of the
other movements combined with two string quintet versions of music for wind
octet that are by no means accepted as Mozart original compositions. I think
the K. listing is 196e.

I just didn't want you getting confused when you discovered more K. 361
music in the Peters edition than you planned for.

What you really want is just the slow movement of 361 and that is in the
first of the two string quintet versions.

There is a long chapter in my book on the gran Partitta that deals with the
colossal screw up of those two string quintet arrangement of 361. It was
practically criminal of Peters to have made those (or I should say
"invented") two arrangement and pass them off as Mozart's work. But you
don't need to look at that chapter if all you are trying to do is to create
a version of the slow movement that Fuchs played.

Mind you, I am not at all sure that the Peters edition was the source of
what Fuchs played, but it was as close as I could get for you.

The fee for all this exhaustive and terribly hard work is one pizza.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bryant (TT)" <michaelbryant@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Wenzel Fuchs and his arrangement with Mozart

> Thank you Dan for a clear unidirectional answer that I can work on
> and will borrow and inspect a copy the Peters Edition (Vol 1).
> MB
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Wenzel Fuchs and his arrangement with Mozart
>
>
>> There have been several arrangements of movements of K. 361 for string
>> quintet, and the first violin could easily have been played on a clarinet
>> or
>> an oboe or clarinet. At least one of the string quintet arrangements has
>> been published, and is part of the Peters publication of the complete
>> string
>> quintets of Mozart.
>>
>> I cannot comment on the quality of the Peters arrangement of K. 361,
>> which
>> might not be the source for the performance of Fuchs, but it is a place
>> for
>> Michael Bryant to consider. The string arrangement does not have a string
>> bass as part of the band but that is not a reason to eliminate it from
>> consideration. It doubles the cello part.
>>
>> The arranger of the Youtube presentation is named Denis Caïozzi if that
>> is
>> of any help. You might be able to chase him down.
>>
>> And Fuchs plays magnificently, in my opinion.
>>
>>
>> Dan Leeson
>
>
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