Klarinet Archive - Posting 000080.txt from 2012/02

From: "michael bryant" <michaelbryant@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] George Dazeley's Study of K622 (1948)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:01:25 -0500

Thank you very much, Simon, for reminding us of Pamela Poulin's 1976 study
of Anton Stadler, a tour de force, if I may say so. She published some
related additional material in 'The Clarinet' in 1995, 2009 & 2010.
Apologies if I missed some.

An Update Report on New Information Regarding Stadler's Concert Tour of
Europe and Two Early Examples of the Basset Clarinet, The Clarinet, p 24-28,
Feb/March 1995

Anton Stadler's Music Plan, a Translation with Introduction, The Clarinet, p
36-45, June 2009 (Music Plan, ref., p 60-64 of the 1976 study)

Anton Stadler and Beethoven, The Clarinet, p 48-50, June 2010

M

----- Original Message -----

Since Dazeley puts forth a supposition regarding the existence of an 18th
century clarinet with 4 extra notes below its modern-day limit, it's worth
mentioning again an interesting "piggyback" thesis, by Pamela Poulin, which
includes suppositions of the design of Stadler's basset clarinet (before the
discovery of the Riga program):
> https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action?institutionalItemId=5327
>
> Poulin's thesis is a good representation of what was known about the
> basset clarinet at the time of the paper's writing (1976).
> Poulin provides hand-drawn hypothetical propositions of what Stadler's
> basset clarinet might have looked like. Compared with what we now know
> (based on the drawing of Stadler's basset clarinet on the program cover
> for a concert in Riga) she wasn't far off.
> One supposition that turned out to be inaccurate was that she presumed the
> lower part of the basset clarinet might feature a kasten, since many
> extant basset horns have a kasten (a box which houses the lower part of
> the instrument "folding over on itself" to avoid excessive length).
>
> There is an interesting chapter, with photos, on the earliest *modern*
> basset clarinets, from the first one in 1950 (an extension added to a
> Selmer A clarinet) to Stalder's 1968 extension made by Eubel and Alan
> Hacker's 1969 instrument (a 19th-century Boehm Albert A clarinet modified
> by Ed Planas). In the preface there is also a tip of the hat to Dan Leeson
> for being a scholar of great service to the author.

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