Mozart: Clarinet Concerto

by Colin Lawson

Overview

Mozart's Clarinet Concerto is of supreme importance as his last instrumental work. Yet there are a number of special problems surrounding the piece, since the autograph is lost and the unique instrument for which it was written has not survived. This book presents a wealth of background information, an analysis of the Concerto, discussion of performance practice and details of surviving relevant instruments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521473842
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/02/1996
Series:	Cambridge Music Handbooks
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

1. The eighteenth-century clarinet and its music; 2. Mozart, Stadler and the clarinet; 3. The genesis and reception of the Concerto; 4. Stadler's clarinet and its revival; 5. Mozart's original text; 6. Design and structure; 7. Performance practice; Appendices; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'... I found Lawson's painstaking and scholarly work delving into the origins of this unique masterpiece quite masterly.' Stephen Trier, Clarinet and Saxophone

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