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Author: AlexThomson
Date: 2014-03-23 17:00
Hi there,
Im currently exploring honours thesis ideas and I'm thinking of "The use of the Piccolo clarinet in opera: the connotations implied by the orchestration" or something along those lines.
Does anyone know what the first opera was that used piccolo clarinet (e flat or d)? I thought it was Strauss in Feuersnot 1901, but then i found the d clarinet in Gluck's Echo et Narcisse 1779.
Many thanks,
Alex
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2014-03-24 00:49
Luigi Cherubini uses D-clarinet in Démophon (1788).
Alphie
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2014-03-24 01:31
D clarinets were used in Rameau's Acante et Céphise (1751). Any higher bidders? :-)
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Author: Hurstfarm
Date: 2014-03-24 19:03
Worth also considering the Ab piccolo clarinet? Not aware of anything to challenge the dates already quoted, but it was used by Verdi. An instrument possibly appealing to bats, but almost certainly not to your next door neighbour...
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Author: davyd
Date: 2014-03-25 00:27
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve (1894). 3rd clarinet is in D, at least it is in the suite.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2014-03-25 16:33
If you go back to really early examples - 18th century D clarinet parts, for example - you may need to expand your rationale for making the study. Composers, really through most of the 18th century and even into the early 19th, chose the instruments for very different reasons from those that drove the Romantic (and later) composers' choices of clarinets.
Karl
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