On 26.02.2007 Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
I'm curious if having Trumpets in G Major is unsual for baroque music?
I know E Flat is kind of rare, Bach used that in the Magnificat for
example.
Just guessing here, but was the E flat version of the Magnificat for
some kind of special situation, where the pitch was so low that the
trumpets in D could be used as Trumpets in E flat? I believe I remember
something about this, and there are two versions of the Magnificat (in D
and Eflat, the D version being the much easier for a baroque orchestra,
while the E flat is very unsatisfying to play).
But I'm curious why the composer just didn't transpose this G
Major sinfonia to D, where trumpets were more common.
Just a guess, but perhaps Graupner composed this for a very specific
trumpeter, a virtuoso who liked to play these odd (I assume high) pitches?
We have similar situation with horn parts, where there seems to be a
link between Bach, Graun (in Berlin) and Haydn (in Eisenstadt). It seems
that one school of horn players could play these extremely high horn
parts. Johann Gottlieb Graun's horn parts are the highest at that time,
and interestingly a Graun horn concerto turned up in the Esterhazy
archives, originally believed to be a Haydn concerto.
Johannes
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