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The Phant... Schumann!! Wherefore art thou?

Author: DLE
Date: 2001-10-19 08:57

Hi. I just thought I would clear up a little confusion over the origins of the Schumann fantasy pieces. According to the researching I have been doing, this is rather confusing. Firstly, the piece looks as if it was originally COMPOSED for the clarinet (Though I am not sure which one), and yet performed often on the violin, or the cello!! Ken has mentioned that this was to increase sales, but I am a bit more sceptical.
My own ex-teacher originally told me that we shouldn't be doing this piece, as to her it has always been for violin, not clarinet. Me, be very young and na�ve at the time, believed her. After embarrasing myself in a previous post about this subject, litterally minutes before I ACTUALLY looked it up, I thought it deserved its own post.
So now, I am inclined to believe the experts - I wish to apologize for making such an obvious error - an error which I have believed in for the past 3 YEARS!
Schumann must not have had alot of confidence in the clarinet though, if he also released it for 2 other instruments. As beautiful as this piece is, I can't help but get the feeling that Schumann wasn't entirely sure what he was doing when writing a piece for clarinet - In my opinion for example, the piano part is 10 times that of the clarinet part.
Another bit of guesswork? BUT, am I a good, or a bad critic?
I now leave it to the experts...
Sorry if this does not fit the bBoard.
DLE.

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