Posted by K on June 05, 2003 at 13:57:12:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Playing everything on the big horn posted by Move, then, to the on June 05, 2003 at 13:07:23:
Your suggestions are not so far off, as you would like them to be!
The Brandenburg is #2, it was written for an F trumpet written a major ninth above Eb alto parts. But its length of tubing is almost the same as that of the Eb alto-horn. Their fundamentals are only a major second apart.
Mozart's clarinet concerto was written for a basset (NOT bass!) clarinet in A. Yet this basset clarinet had one important feature common with a modern pro-level bass-clarinet: it could descend to its written low C. Hence modern editions of that concerto have certain passages re-arranged an octave up.
As for playing from A parts on Bb bass clarinets: pro-orchestra clarinetists are supposed to be able to do so, when they play Mahler. The bass clarinet in A, which Mahler wrote for in his 4th symphony, is now obsolete.
Klaus