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Re: Mozart Concerto transposing piano?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-03-05 01:00

There are several editions available with Bb accompaniments. They're aimed mostly at the student market. The Carl Fischer edition (edited by Bellison) has been around since at least the early 1960s, when I first started to learn it, but I'm certain it's older than that. There's also a Schirmer edition (no editor indicated for the clarinet part) and an International Music Co. edition edited by Kell. Those are only the ones I have in my library, all currently in print. I'm sure there are others.

You never know when you'll run into a purist with perfect pitch who just can't deal with its being played in the wrong key. I once got a quite public tongue lashing from Sol Shoenbach, who at the time was the Executive Director of Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, because I allowed one of my students to play a movement of the Concerto on Bb clarinet in an SMS recital. I was young at the time. He was furious and I felt rather abused. You just never can be sure you're safe.

Karl

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