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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-04-16 15:00
We know the obvious "clarinetist as muse" to composer relationships....
1.Brahms and......
2. Mozart and....
Are there any less obvious/ less well known clarinetists who have served as a muse to a composer?
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2003-04-17 01:46
Weber and Baermann
Mendelssohn and Baermann junior (the early sonata)
Copland and Goodman (but he was paying)
I think composers seem to be more likely to write for clarinet after they meet a clarinetist who inspires them. I mean, almost all composers write for piano and violin but they don't seem to start writing for clarinet until the right clarinetist comes along. Sadly, in many cases this seems to happen fairly near the composer's death. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the clarinet was a young and still developing instrument in the 19th century- the playing level was probably somewhat uneven and composers started writing for clarinet after they heard what they thought to be their ideal clarinet sound.
Just a very unresearched thought. By the way, it was Brahms and Richard Mühlfeld and Mozart and Anton Stadler.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-04-17 06:01
A few more:
Spohr and Hermstedt
Nielsen and Oxenvad
..and in a more contemporary vein, Bernstein and Oppenheim...GBK
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Author: theclarinetist
Date: 2003-04-17 06:22
Goodman also inspired pieces by
Malcolm Anorld
Darius Milhaud
Bela Bartok
Paul Hindemith
John Corigliano, Stanley Drucker
Howard Blake, Thea King
Robert Muczynski, Mitchell Lurie
Malcolm Arnold, Frederick Thurston (Concerto No. 1)
Malcolm Arnold, Sir Colin Davis (Sonatina)
Libby Larsen, Caroline Hartig
It's kinda late... that's all I can think of right now
Hope it helps a little
Don Hite
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2003-04-18 14:36
Jospeh Horovitz and Gervase De Peyer; several pieces for clarinet and piano and a concerto
Tom Piercy
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Author: NMH
Date: 2003-04-18 15:17
Joan Tower and Laura Flax
Stockhausen and Suzanne Stephens
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