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Bass clarinet in A

Author: BelgianClarinet
Date: 2005-11-07 19:31

Just returned from a lesson on Bass Clarinet.

When reading through some very interesting 'orchestral excerpts' (Drapkin) we ofcourse came in the Mahler / Rachmaninov part and there it is : the Bass in A.

We had a discussion if those instruments really existed, and if in that period the bass player actually had 2 instruments during the concert (just as we now do with the soprano). Or at least that this was the intention of the composer to use really 2 instruments.
Or was it only written this way to make life easier for the composer ?

Today it's clear we transpose, but anyone any idea what the real background was for this ?

I noticed that Mahler only started doing this in Symphony n°4 (1 and 2 only Bb bass) and didn't do it in n° 9. Maybe the orchestra he wrote these works for had 2 bass players ?

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