Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 2012/02

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] George Dazeley
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:59:11 -0500

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On February 28, 2012 at 10:49 AM Doug Potter <doug@-----.net> wrote:

> Mark, could these be made available on the web site?
>
> Doug
> http://ConicWave.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: michael bryant [mailto:michaelbryant@-----.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:34 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: [kl] George Dazeley
>
> 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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