Klarinet Archive - Posting 000324.txt from 2010/09

From: Fred <vze2bsbs@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart concerto
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:32:12 -0400

How about his 4 clarinet concertos? Very nice works indeed.

Fred

At 10:24 AM 9/11/2010, you wrote:

>On 10 Sep 2010, at 20:51, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>
>On 09/10/2010 01:12 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> > When I was doing postgrad work on Victorian domestic music it
> came as a shock to discover that at the time Mozart was considered
> inferior not only to Beethoven but even to Spohr.
>
>Spohr himself is an odd case -- if I recall right, during his lifetime
>he was considered by many to be THE great composer of the age, the heir
>to Beethoven, etc. etc. etc., and yet today he's largely forgotten.
>I recall reading somewhere that, in the UK at least, it was Thomas
>Beecham who had a lot to do with Mozart's revival and re-evaluation as a
>composer of depth, as opposed to a a lightweight composer of "pretty"
>pieces.
>
>I suspect part of Spohr's high reputation as a composer was due to
>his high standing as a virtuoso performer; he obviously "plugged"
>his own works. Nevertheless a lot of his music is worth playing and
>for clarinettists both the octet and the nonet are great fun. They
>do need good strings and the octet a pair of excellent hornists if
>you want to try them. I would say that the Beecham comment is fair;
>I am-luckily old enough to have heard him with the Royal
>Philharmonic. He also did a great deal to_popularize Delius_
>Martin_
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