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Re: Anyone ever played...

Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2006-05-24 18:21

I had a nice converstion about this very subject with Christopher Hogwood when I played a Mozart festival with him a few years back. It is his theory that Mozart abandoned the G major version of K622 when Stadler no longer had access to a G bassett horn to play it on. (Perhaps he pawned it, sold it to pay gambling debts, who knows). Anyway, Hogwood finds the orchestral accompaniment much more friendly in G -- more open strings, better tessitura for horns etc.

The only G bassett horn music I ever got to play was one of the Mozart songs for three singers and three bassett horns. Although I consider myself quite fluent in "C" transposition (which is actually what I was doing playing a G part on an F instrument), it turned out to be a nasty task, given the Leblanc bassett's backwards key lineup for the lowest notes -- almost too much for my tiny brain to process!

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