Contents
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About the book
Carl Maria von Weber wrote his two clarinet concertos in 1811 for Heinrich Baermann, the Munich court clarinettist. The first, in F minor, opens with a dark orchestral tutti before the clarinet enters singing; a hymn-like Adagio in C major, with a famous passage for the clarinet over three horns, leads to a playful Rondo full of leaps across the registers.
The clarinet part is printed at written pitch for the clarinet in B-flat; the accompaniment is Friedrich Hermann's piano reduction of the orchestra (Breitkopf & Härtel, c. 1897), which is in the public domain. The edition's cadenza by Baermann is left out: the page follows Weber's text.
Source: Friedrich Hermann's piano reduction (Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, c. 1897).
