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Arthur Campbell: Carl Philipp Stamitz: Quartets for Clarinet

by C. Michael Bailey
March 8, 2013

Beneath the veneer of the “great composers"--Bach, Mozart and Beethoven--lay a wealth of talent that was composed at the same time, often competing with what history has deemed its betters. It would be easy to consign the clarinet music of the latter half of the Eighteenth Century to Mozart, whose “Clarinet Concerto in Am, K622" and “Clarinet Quintet in Am, K581" have never left the performance repertoire. But thinking this would be at the expense of a large number of ...