Klarinet Archive - Posting 000185.txt from 2012/02

From: "michael bryant" <michaelbryant@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] George Dazeley
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:33:41 -0500

Those list members who requested copies of George Dazeley's study of
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto may also be interested to know who he was. Other
pioneers in the field include Michael Whewell, Ernst Hess, Pamela Poulin,
Milan Kostohryz, Jiri Kratochvil, Alan Hacker, Ted Planas and Hans Rudolf
Stalder, all better known or remembered than George Dazeley. In some cases
he was misremembered. Alan Hacker refers to him as the 'late' George Dazeley
three years before he died in his Schott edition of the concerto in 1974. In
Jack Brymer's book on the clarinet in 1976 (p 36) he was said to an
American; nothing wrong with that. My notes have reached ~1000 words, based
on enquiries made in the last few weeks. The resulting illustrated Word.doc
file is available on request by direct mailing. Here is a short summary,
which may suffice, with apologies for some overlapping information:

Dr George Dazeley (1914-1977) was an organic chemist and in charge of the
science department at Rugby School. He was a man of many interests; fungi,
hill walking, geology, drama production, refereeing hockey. Music was at the
irreducible core of his activities. He appeared as a baritone soloist at a
professional level and played the clarinet and bassoon. In 1948 he
published, with visionary insight, a pioneering study of Mozart's Clarinet
Concerto proposing the use of the basset clarinet extended to low C, based
on internal evidence alone, proved to be largely correct by later
discoveries.

MB

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