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Need date for a composer-Giovanni Sobeck

Author: Philip Miller
Date: 2000-02-15 01:12

I am a junior at the University of Toledo and I DESPERATELY need the dates and biography of a composer. Giovanni Sobeck wrote a clarinet duet called "Duet" Op. 8. If ANYONE has ANY information.....PLEASE E-MAIL ME ASAP. I have tried searching everywhere!!!!!

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RE: Need date for a composer-Giovanni Sobeck

Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2000-02-16 19:33

Philip Miller wrote:
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I am a junior at the University of Toledo and I DESPERATELY need the dates and biography of a composer. Giovanni Sobeck wrote a clarinet duet called "Duet" Op. 8. If ANYONE has ANY information.....PLEASE E-MAIL ME ASAP. I have tried searching everywhere!!!!!

Philip -

Actually, I found it using All the Web, which is now my search engine (bigger and quicker than Alta Vista), at <A HREF=http://www.alltheweb.com>http://www.alltheweb.com<A>

A search on Sobeck and clarinet returned Brandt's Woodwind Quintet List at <A HREF=http://www.concertbandmusic.com/ww5.html>http://www.concertbandmusic.com/ww5.html<A>
which in turn lists "Sobeck, Johann (1831-1914)."

Since Johann is the German equivalent of the Italian Giovanni, and since Johann Sobeck wrote woodwind quintets, it's a safe bet that this is the right one.

I hate to ask, but did you go to the U. of Toledo music library and look up Sobeck in the current edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians or Grove's Encyclopedia? Did you check the library's sheet music index for pieces by Sobeck (probably woodwind quintets -- see the Brandt's Quintet List for titles)? Did you look in the other scholarly indexes (scholarly journals, dissertation abstracts)?

No one would expect you to know this off the top of your head, but you are expected to know that the place to start your research is your university's music library, and in particular with the reference librarian.

So -- you owe me a perfect f-minor scale in thirds, 3 octaves ascending and descending, worked up one "click" on the metronome speed scale at a time from quarter notes at 40 to sixteenths at 120 by this on Friday. Enjoy.

Ken Shaw

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