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Re: Schubert and the clarinet

Author: Liquorice
Date: 2016-11-01 00:20

I have to disagree that Schubert wrote few works for the clarinet. In the instrumental music that he composed in his mere 31 years of life, he featured the clarinet extensively. Look at his late symphonies, his incidental music to Rosamunde, his operas Alfonso und Estrella and Fierrabras and of course his wonderful Octet. Schubert cleary adored the clarinet!

I'm completely puzzled by your last question. It seems to imply that being authentic is in some way an obstacle to playing musically??

One topic in performing Schubert, which I found enlightening, is his use of this symbol: >

He uses this symbol a LOT and it is often written quite large in his manuscripts, which makes it unclear whether he meant accent or diminuendo. In most editions, even Bärenreiter, they almost always print the symbol small, implying an accent. But in a piece like the 9th symphony, he uses the symbol so frequently that it's heard to believe he intended an accent on every note where it appears. And the size of some of them make it (at least to my eyes) visually clear that he intended diminuendo. In the octet the diminuendos sometimes line up perfectly with other events in the score, which would be totally lost if just played as a percussive accent.

I haven't seen the manuscript of Der Hirt, but I'm sure a study of it would be a great place to start to form an idea of how to play a "musically authentic" performance! :-)

Post Edited (2016-11-01 01:41)

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