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 Re: The fast switch from B to A Clarinet
Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date:   2016-09-27 19:02

On Beethoven's (and Mozart's) reasons for using different instruments, my extremely limited experience with "Mozart clarinets" makes it seem reasonable that they both would have found the results of writing the parts for a piece in Eb for Bb rather than A clarinets more satisfactory, even if they really preferred the sound of the A for that piece, because of the way most players would have sounded playing in that many flats. Which is certainly not to say that they never made the decision based on the sound they wanted. I've read that when Haydn first conducted in London, he had to ask the tympani player to let the mallet come off the drumhead rather than leaving it there when he played a single note, so the standards of playing probably weren't what we expect now even in professional groups in big cities.

With period vs. modern instruments, we have the same considerations of aesthetical ethics that pianists do. There are things one can do on a Bösendorfer that one cannot do on a Broadwood, and many great soloists tend to want to do them. It can't really be answered one way or the other and it's very nice that we have opportunities to hear both views realized very well. A Vivaldi trio sonata played passionately by wind players on modern instruments can sound hugely exciting, and it's hard to imagine Vivaldi would have disapproved, even though the oboes, flutes and bassoons of the time really couldn't have pulled that kind of thing off.
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