Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2006-04-05 21:47
I'd like to tell the story of my particular relationship to this piece, to do with how I first came to play it. It's a story that might be instructive (or not:-)
A very important part of my musical development was that I had a pianist friend at school; and he used to come round to my house for us to read through the clarinet repertoire. We played first the simpler pieces: Finzi Bagatelles, Arnold Sonata and so on. But we eventually progressed to, for example, the Ireland Fantasy Sonata, and even had a shot at the Reger Sonatas.
We also 'discovered', and played in a concert, the Komarowsky concerto, all quite independent of my formal lessons.
But anyway, because we were a duo, we were asked, as a duo, to play an item in a little show to be put on at the school; and I thought the last movement of the Weber Gran Duo (another of our 'discoveries':-) would work well. So I suggested that.
Then, while I was practising it, I thought to myself, I should have a lesson on this from my teacher. (He'd never heard me play it, you see.)
But then I thought -- and I remember the moment very well, and even the decoration of the room at home I was in, and the wooden music stand, and the light of the early evening, and so on -- I thought, "Actually, I don't have to have a lesson, because this is between Weber and me."
And that felt very dangerous, but somehow right. (It's informed my attitude to music ever since.)
Of course, I didn't know at the time that there was another layer between me and Weber, namely the editor of the edition I was playing.
But I do now -- and in case you haven't noticed, Mark has just put up in another thread a pdf file of a transcription of the clarinet part as it appears in Weber's manuscript.
Tony
Post Edited (2006-04-05 21:51)
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