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Author: kdk
Date: 2017-07-05 02:46
Does anyone know for certain whether or not the Ricordi edition of this piece is the earliest one? I have an obviously modern printing of a Ricordi edition (which says Revised by Alamiro Giampieri) with a copyright notice that has no date, so I can't tell when it was originally published. The piece is by now PD, regardless of the notice, since Cavallini died in 1874.
I'm curious because our state (PMEA) and local County (BCMEA) organizations include the piece in their 3 year rotation, but require the Waln (Kjos) arrangement. "Arrangement" is an accurate descriptor - George Waln left a great deal of the music in the Ricordi/Giampieri and obviously later Southern/Hite editions on the cutting room floor. There are also a number of note alterations - not misprints, but I suppose Mr. Waln's "corrections" for notes he found somehow musically awkward. The metronome markings are also significantly different among the three editions - not so big a deal as the omissions and changed notes, but it would mean SOMEthing if Ricordi were the original edition.
So, I'm curious if the Ricordi/Giampieri is the closest we can come to a first edition or if there was an edition published even earlier that was supervised by Cavallini himself.
Karl
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2017-07-05 18:45
This makes me wonder which edition I have. It's part of vol. 3 of Cundy-Bettony's Clarinet Classics collection. No edition is specified. I ought to compare IMSLP. This is a piece I secretly like to go crazy with, for which, no prizes. :-)
I've seen a couple of Waln's other arrangements. What was their purpose?
Post Edited (2017-07-05 20:28)
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Author: kdk
Date: 2017-07-05 20:41
Philip Caron wrote:
> This makes me wonder which edition I have. It's part of vol. 3
> of Cundy-Bettony's Clarinet Classics collection. No edition is
> specified. I ought to compare IMSLP. This is piece I secretly
> like to go crazy with, for which, no prizes. :-)
>
> I've seen a couple of Waln's other arrangements. What was
> their purpose?
From a response I got when I posted this same question to the Klarinet list, the C-B edition - Boston, Cundy-Bettoney, 1938 (edited by Rosario Mazzeo) - is even older than the three I mentioned. But the original was published by Canti in Milan in 1869.
I have no idea why Waln thought it was a good idea to cut the piece up the way he did. His version isn't any less difficult. It does make it shorter - maybe he wanted his students to play it for competitions of some kind but thought it was too long for the purpose. As to the notes that he changed, I can't even guess what he based those changes on, since the oldest source I have available was published almost 70 years after the original publication.
It isn't a major piece, I don't think, in the repertoire. It's important here only because it's in the state audition rotation. I just hate teaching bogus versions that I know are bogus. Don't even get me started on the required editions of the Mozart Concerto and the Weber Concertino that are the other two pieces in the rotation.
Karl
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