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Re: Is there a basset note B in the Mozart Concerto?

Author: Cdh
Date: 2020-06-07 10:04

To follow up from Liquorice:

I think the reference Hoeprich probably meant to cite (on page 116) regarding the Lubeck concert >announcement< was:

Poulin: An Updated Report on New Information Regarding Stadler's Concert Tour of Europe and Two Early Examples of the Basset Clarinet, The Clarinet Feb/March 1995.

I don't think Lubeck is mentioned in Poulin's thesis (thanks Liquorice).

Hoeprich writes that the notice was written by a critic after a concert in Lubeck. In fact it was an announcement, or advertisement, before the concert, which therefore means it originated in some way with Stadler, who is unlikely to have been mistaken about his own instrument.

Both Poulin and Harald Strebel have documented two advertisements in Lubeck which mention the five extra notes. The second one is also a notice of postponement ON the day of the concert. A third advertisement is for a second concert, and mentions Stadler's invention, but omits the detail about five extra notes - presumably so he had room to mention the singer who appeared with him, Madamoiselle Loewe.

Pamela Poulin's book "In the Footsteps of Mozart’s Clarinetist: Anton Stadler (1753-1812)" was published by Pendragon in 2019. I'm sure all the info is in there too.

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