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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2008-09-20 15:26
My part says C clarinet for the first 2 movements . Do you know if that is what Chopin intended? I am always happy to play my forte C, but am just wondering if this is Chopin's idea or the editor.
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: tacet
Date: 2008-09-21 11:02
When Chopin wrote the concertos, he was only twenty and had next to no experience with orchestration. It is therefore quite possible that he wrote C parts -- but more to avoid the transpositions than for the effect nowadays associate with C instruments. Indeed, the orchestration of the concertos has often been criticized and "improved" by well-meaning editors.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2008-09-22 00:59
Clarinet in C is not uncommon for music of the 19th century and even the early 20th century. Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, to mention a few, even some Brahms and Strauss. We just transpose it on the Bb clarinet. Once in a while on the A but that's less common, example, the slow mov’t of the Beethoven violin concerto. If you have a C clarinet, go for it. ESP
www.peabody.jhu.edu/457 Listen to a little Mozart.
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Author: diz
Date: 2008-09-24 03:54
As Ed states - the C clarinet was as much a part of the clarinetists' equipment at that time as the B-flat and A
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