Talk:Clarinet Quintet (Mozart)

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[edit] Was the quintet written for basset clarinet?

At the begining of the article it says that this quintet was written for basset clarinet, altough it is played today on a normal A clarinet. Were did the people that wrote this article got that information? It is really not confirmed that Mozart wrote his clarinet quintet for basset clarinet. In fact, the most probably thing (but unconfirmed, too) is that he did not. Why? Because it's probable that this instrument (the basset clarinet) wasn't invented yet when Mozart wrote the quintet. Mozart wrote for basset clarinet first in his opera "La clemenza di Tito" and then in his Clarinet concerto as "a new instrument that Stadler had invented". He originally intended to wrote this concerto for basset horn (not basset clarinet which is a different instrument) in the key of G major two years earlier (1789, he only completed the first part of the first movement, this is the only manuscript that survives today), and then transcribed what he had already written to adapt it to "the new Stadler instrument", the basset clarinet, and create the first movement of the concerto. So it seems very unlikely that he wrote the quintet for an instrument that probably did not exist yet at that time... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clarihuge 200.3.249.199 (talk) 05:34, 24 March 2008 (UTC)