Author: Laurelin
Date: 2011-07-11 17:14
Alright, so my first question is , does anyone have the Mozart fragment? I cannot find it online. You'd think that IMSLP would have it, but nope. If you do have it and can share it as a pdf, I would be very, very grateful.
What I really want to do is compare the fragment with the piano quintet version arranged by Schwenke somewhere between 1799 - 1805. I read an article about the Concerto that mentioned Schwenke as being based on the original Mozart Manuscript, and therefore being more accurate than the early published solo editions. It also mentioned Schwenke as a good source of information about period performance practice.
It also mentions that the Mozart Fragment is a 'draft' which implies it wasn't the final version of the concerto. Is that correct?
Article is called "Reading Between the (Ledger) Lines: Performing Mozart's music for Basset Clarinet.
Schwenke's Piano quintet can be found at IMSLP. It has enough ornamentation in it to make me think that Martin Frost might have been more historically accurate, not less. it is also much more technical - on the "rocket passages at m. 334, it goes from the basset low C all the way to a altissimo E, due to an extra beat of notes, and the next rocket accelerates a bit at the end - triplet sixteenth notes to a altissimo F#, and the next accelrates more - eighth note low C, sixteenth notes, 32nd notes, end on a high G.
So it is significantly different from the standard published solo versions, which I find very interesting. It is likely that performing the solo the schwenke way in front of a judge panel would be a bad idea, but I'm not sure who I'm going to perform in front of, or if I'm performing it at all. I'm just studying the solo right now, trying to create a version for my A clarinet that I like and is as accurate as I can possibly get it.
So... any thoughts?
Thanks,
Laura
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