Author: Liquorice
Date: 2019-05-23 23:29
ruben- as you say, we are all conditioned to some extent by that which we are accustomed to. So I find the question about what various individuals think about the basset clarinet a lot less interesting than "what did Mozart think about the basset clarinet?". Clearly he liked it, because he wrote such fantastic music for it. Besides the Concerto and Quintet, he also used it in La Clemenza di Tito and Cosi fan Tutte (basset clarinet in B-flat).
Some contemporary composers like it too, eg. Harrison Birtwistle, Thomas Ades and South African composers Michael Blake and Paul Hanmer.
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