Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2007-06-22 21:40
The number of Clarinet Concertos attributed to Carl Stamitz (the son) is in double digits, including his two double concertos (clarinet and bassoon; and clarinet and violin, also in an edition for 2 clarinets). Of these, as GBK notes, three are in Eb. Johann Stamitz (the father) wrote only one.
Finding the sheet music for yours shouldn't be too difficult. The bottom of the page you uploaded indicates Schirmer as the the publisher and they have only published one Stamitz Eb Clarinet concerto so, if you tell the music store you want the Stamitz Clarinet Concerto in Eb published by Schirmer (edited by Christmann), you should get the right one. It's in print and I find it at both SheetMusicPlus ($12.95) and Luyben ($11.95 but that price is possibly out of date).
SheetMusicPlus lists the concerto as No. 6. I don't know where they get the number. It's not shown anywhere on the Schirmer edition, which identifies it only as "Concerto in Eb." In the preface inside, it is actually identified as No. 11. To complicate matters, though, there are two different numbering systems for Carl's clarinet concertos. Sabine Meyer (EMI), Kalman Berkes (Naxos), and Eduard Brunner (Tudor) all show (the same) No. 11 in Eb in their sets -- but it isn't this one. The movement titles are wrong. For the Schirmer Eb, the movement titles are: I Allegro, II Siciliano, III Rondo. Neither Meyer nor Berkes have apparently recorded that one. Brunner has... it's listed as No. 5. I think his are out-of-print but you might find a copy at Amazon. Otherwise, scaring up a recording could prove a challenge. There are other recordings of the Stamitz concerti but they're hard to find.
Best regards,
jnk
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