Author: ruben
Date: 2019-12-09 15:45
At the age of 19, I decided I never wanted to hear, let alone play, another note of Weber. "Less Weber and more Webern" was my motto. I had been been totally put off the great man by mechanically and soullessly playing and hearing so many of his pieces in auditions and the like. Now that I am in the final throes of senile decay, I have changed my mind. His F-minor Clarinet Concerto, his opera Freischutz, the Duo Concertante, among other pieces, have made me view him differently. The trouble is how his music is often played: too fast usually well above tempo markings- technically rather than poetically and lyrically. It helps to have read ETA Hoffmann, Novalis, Jean-Paul. I don't know whether Weber himself read the early Romantic German poets that were his contemporaries, but they get you into the zeitgeist and offer indirect insights into his world.
How's that for straying off the topic of ligatures and Legere reeds?
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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