Klarinet Archive - Posting 000075.txt from 2012/02

From: "michael bryant" <michaelbryant@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] George Dazeley's Study of K622 (1948)
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:14:04 -0500

Thank you, Dan.
But in fact, this is my salute to you.
M

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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] George Dazeley's Study of K622 (1948)

When Dazeley wrote and published this piece, it
was not well received. Several people expressed
the view that his theory was nonsense.
Fortunately, smarter heads prevailed.

It has been years since I read and was
tremendously affected Dazeley's hypothesis, but
what it said, in a nutshell, was this: the Mozart
clarinet concerto had to have been edited into a
form that is considerably different that what
Mozart may have written. Many passages in the
work make little sense. Passages are interrupted
in mid process and the clarinetist is forced to go
to a higher register, and whole passages are
required to be played in the wrong octave. The
only explanation for this anomaly is that the
clarinet in Mozart's day must have had an
extension down to low C below its present range of
low E. And he was 100% right.

I tried researching who Dazeley was but struck
out. He made the most significant and radical
hypothesis about K. 622 and revolutionized our
conceptions of that magnificdent work, as wells as
changing the kinds of clarinets that can be made
available today.

The next step in the fight is to get manufacturers
to make clarinets in B-flat and C that go down to
low C. It does not matter that little literature
requires such a radical change. It matters only
that with those lower extensions, composers are
going to write works that will exploit the lower
end of the instrument.

For everyone's information, Stadler had three
clarinets that went down to low C. So why
should't we?

Bravo Michael Bryant! I salute you on the way out
the door.

Dan Leeson
email: dnleeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: michael bryant
[mailto:michaelbryant@-----.net]
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 1:21 PM
To: klarinet@-----.com
Subject: [kl] George Dazeley's Study of K622
(1948)

If any members of the list would be interested in
reading this pioneering
paper on Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and the basset
clarinet I would be happy
to supply it, in the form of a pdf (4Mb). Please
contact me off the list. It
is a prime example of armchair travelling for many
of us who will never own
such an instrument, and appeared in 'The Music
Review' IX/3, August 1948,
pages 166-172.

At present I have no biographical information
about the author, George
Dazeley. If there is an online source, I have not
yet found it. It should
not be lost in obscurity.

The February 2012 issue of 'The Gramophone'
contains a potted history of the
recordings of the concerto. A music critic may be
entitled to his opinions,
and particular focus, but no mention is made of
Hans Rudolf Stalder (who was
the first to record the work on a modern basset
clarinet in August 1968).
Secondly, by some quirk of fate, a picture caption
relating to Thea King is
supplanted by a photograph of Georgina Dobr=E9e,
(who did not record it).

Rgds
M

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