Klarinet Archive - Posting 000343.txt from 2010/09

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta source material
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:17:49 -0400

I don't see any purpose to producing yet another edition of K. 361 at this =

juncture of history. Nor do I understand how anyone could approach the wor=
k =

without reading "gran Partitta," which I wrote to address the problems of =

producing an edition of this very composition. (What are you going to do =

about measure 111 in the fifth movement?) You can get it on line at =

Amazon.com, or go to leesonbooks.com to get an idea of the nature and =

content of the book. I think it is a good read.

In addition to the B=E4renreither edition edited by Neal Zaslaw and me, and =

the Henle edition edited by Henrik Wiese, there is also an excellent =

edition edited by Roger Hellyer and published by Emerson. Fred Fennell als=
o =

prepared an edition published by Ludwig Music (now E. F. Kalmus of Boca =

Raton, Florida). This last edition was done for the purpose of describing =

how Fred liked the piece to be played and that took a higher precedent than =

a literal reading of the manuscript. This is not a criticism of Fennell's =

work. It was he who first introduced me to the piece in 1956, and for whic=
h =

I am eternally grateful.

As for the first edition issued by the Bureau des arts et Industrie, forge=
t =

about it. To even consider using it as a basis for another edition would be =

unworthy of any contemporary editor.

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message ----- =

From: "Keith Bowen" <keith.bowen@-----.com>
To: "'The Klarinet Mailing List'" <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta source material

>I think you should read the notes to the critical edition of Barenreiter,
> and also Dan's book, in order to appreciate the scholarship that went into
> this. And I would not be interested in trying to repeat this, or simply
> copying it, in order to get it into the public domain. For one, it would =

> not
> demonstrate that this community approach was valuable, as the work has
> actually already been done. I am quite prepared to pay the reasonable =

> costs
> of the Barenreiter or Henle editions to get hold of this.
>
> Let's have a suggestion for a work which has not received this treatment!
>
> Keith
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
> Sent: 11 September 2010 18:32
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta source material
>
> On 09/11/2010 07:20 PM, Gary Van Cott wrote:
>> But this has already been done by Baerenreiter (with Dan Leeson as part
>> of the team) and more recently by Henle who produced their own take on =

>> it.
>
> Yes. And both have copyright notices on them, I believe, which mean you
> are not permitted to distribute copies freely ... :-)
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