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Re: Mozart Concerto

Author: GBK
Date: 2006-01-12 00:18

The 1943 Carl Fischer/Bellison edition of the Mozart Concerto is one of the worst (if not the worst) edition available. It certainly is the cheapest - and I suppose you get what you pay for.

There are numerous questionable notes and trills(!), the articulation is highly inconsistant, awkward and an annoyance to fix, the dynamic markings are often surprising (to say the least), and with recent attempts to reconstruct the basset clarinet version this edition is badly outdated.

The biggest gaffe - The use of the term "cadenza."

Put that edition out with yesterday's trash, where it belongs.

Take the time to read Keith Koons excellent article which was published in the May-June, 1998 issue of The Clarinet, Vol. 25, No. 3.

He critically compares the different published editions of K.622.

It is reproduced here:

http://www.clarinet.org/fests/1998/Koons.asp

Many, if not all, of your questions will be answered...GBK

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