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Journal Article
Rediscovering Pleyel's Two Clarinet Concertos
2025
Overview
The other major compositions for the instrument from this era are from the Mannheim composer Carl Stamitz, to whom we now attribute at least 11 clarinet concertos, most of which were likely written for the clarinetist Joseph Beer.1 Together, the works of these two composers make up some of the first significant solo pieces in the instruments literature of the common practice period. In recent decades, public interest in his output as composer has been somewhat rekindled, perhaps in part due to a theory that he may have been the actual author of the \"theme by Haydn\" to which Johannes Brahms composed the famous Variations on a Theme by Haydn.4 In the September 2003 issue of this journal, Michael Thrasher and Barbara Wallaces article \"Ignaz Joseph Pleyel (1751-1831): An Examination of His \"Original' Works for Clarinet\" offered the first comprehensive summary of Pleyel's major works in which the instrument played a significant role.' [...]it is hard to discern whether or not Pleyel ever had in mind a specific instrument when he first wrote many of his concertos. [...]in Dieter Klóckers recording of both works, also with Siidwestdeutscher Kammerorchester Pforzheim, both concertos are performed in the sounding key of Bb, with the album referring to the Ben. 106 as Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in Bb, and the Ben. 104 as Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in Bb\"? (Interestingly, different metadata aggregators of Klôcker's recordings on the internet- such as YouTube Music and Presto Music-have, as of late 2024, inconsistently crawled the Ben. 106, sometimes labeling it as the Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in С, further adding to the confusion.) Both concertos, regardless of how they are named or of their original intended instrumentation, present significant musical value that is worthy of further discovery, study, and analysis by the contemporary clarinetist.
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International Clarinet Association
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