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Author: JustBored
Date: 2025-11-28 18:00
I played the Mozart oboe concerto on the clarinet. I transposed it and it seems to work pretty well. Has anybody here performed the Mozart oboe concerto on the clarinet?
Post Edited (2025-11-28 22:11)
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2025-11-28 20:02
You could also use the flute concerto as that's all been shunted up a whole tone from the original oboe concerto.
Good job there weren't any recordings done back in the day nor anything in the way of broadcasting media nor much travel going on as not many people would've realised Mozart just made some tweaks and shunted the whole concerto from C Major up to D major and laughed all the way to the bank.
I've heard Marin Frost play either the Marcello or Cimarosa oboe concerto on clarinet, also one of the many Albinoni oboe concertos played on trumpet by Alison Balsom.
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Author: graham
Date: 2025-11-29 03:17
I’ve played both of the Mozart and Britten oboe quartets on C clarinet. Very entertaining and the string players were fine with it.
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Author: jim sclater
Date: 2025-11-29 16:47
I have performed the Bach Concerto for Oboe d'Amore, BWV 1055, a few times. When played on A clarinet, there's no transposition involved. Just a lovely work; so much fun to play. Give it a whirl.
jsclater@comcast.net
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-11-29 18:06
When people play these works for C instruments on non-C clarinets (i.e., Bb or A), do they typically transpose as they play, or do they make or obtain transposed copies?
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Author: JustBored
Date: 2025-11-29 19:08
After searching YouTube for clarinet performance videos, I found a clarinet player playing it. The link is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feMqjOFFOxE
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Author: kdk
Date: 2025-11-30 00:48
Philip Caron wrote:
> When people play these works for C instruments on non-C
> clarinets (i.e., Bb or A), do they typically transpose as they
> play, or do they make or obtain transposed copies?
They (we) always used to transpose as we played from the concert pitch part before notation software existed (or desktop computers). Once Finale, Sibelus and the other flavors of notation software had became viable, I think that became the choice for a lot of players who were comfortable with the software - less risky for difficult parts as long as time allowed.
The full-time professional orchestras had librarians who often created transpositions for the players' use. Before computers, the transpositions were in manuscript. I imagine the full-time music librarians by now have all migrated from Al Boss India ink to some form of software.
Karl
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Author: davyd
Date: 2025-11-30 00:56
A clarinetist of my acquaintance has played the oboe d'amore solo in the JS Bach Magnificat on clarinet in A several times.
On a less exalted plane: one time I got to be involved in the PDQ Bach Schleptet by playing the oboe part on clarinet. I wrote out the transposition. (Given that the piece was written between approximately 1807 and 1742, it doesn't sound particularly 18th century.)
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