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Re: Weber 1 Mvmt 1 Articulation Markings

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-09-02 06:42

cigleris wrote:

> Actually kdk,
>
> the Henle edition is Weber’s original solo part and Carl
> Baermann’s published version from what he remembered his
> father to have played. They are not reproducing what Weber
> might have meant they are reproducing from extensive research
> what Weber wrote and what was then played thereafter.

There are two solo parts in the Henle edition. As I read the Preface, one is based on the two earliest published editions by Schlesinger (one for clarinet and piano, the other providing the orchestra parts) and an autograph score Weber had kept in his library. It is meant to be as close as the editors can get to what Weber wanted to have published. The other is a revised version "prepared by the purported eye-witness Carl Baermann partly on the basis of textual intervention by his father, Weber's friend Heinrich Baermann."

> Carl Baermann’s version is interesting because it sheds light on
> what might have been expected in the 1870s.

Yes. That's why Henle includes both versions. And a number of features from the Baermann version have served as the basis for editorial decisions made by editor/performers ever since, judging from the pre-Henle editions I own. But the Henle version meant to present an Urtext was, as I read the Preface, not prepared from Baermann's material or his performance elaborations.

Karl

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