Christian Gottlieb Kleeberg (1766-1811) was a German composer. Information about him seems pretty scarce. I found references to this concerto from multiple sources, and IMSLP also has a collection of dances for solo keyboard, but I've found no mention of any other works, though there must be some (at least 8, presumably).
IMSLP: imslp.org/wiki/Category:Kleeb...
Movements:
0:00 - I. Allegro con spirito
13:50 - II. Romance Cantabile
21:55 - III. Rondo. Allegretto
This concerto has spots for cadenzas in all three movements, but only the 2nd and 3rd movement have them provided, hence the cadenza in the first movement is my own work. It probably could use a bit of polish, but this one has taken me long enough as it is. Again, no conductor score or reduction was available, so you just get the soloist part (According to the title page, it could be replaced with a harp? Unless that's short for harpsichord, which is more common, but I could see this working well on harp as well). It's enough to follow along in most places, though there's a few spots where you just get a simple bass line while the orchestra plays.
This was a bit of an experiment, I'm using MuseScore for the sounds this time. It's better in a lot of ways, but there are some features of the playback I'm less satisfied with. In particular, trills and tremolos don't work very well. Some of the instruments aren't all that great either. I had to ditch the trumpet parts in the 1st movement and replace them with French horns because they sounded absolutely terrible for some reason. The trumpets do sound okay in the 3rd movement though. (The 2nd movement actually calls for horns instead of trumpets in the score, so it's not an entirely unreasonable substitution.)
I've also done a bit with the stereo effects to mimic the organization of a typical orchestra, violins, flutes and trumpets/horns on the left, cellos, oboes and bassoons on the right, etc. Not sure how much that comes across, but I feel like it maybe gives it a bit more dimension, maybe it's just my imagination. I also doubled up on the string parts to add some more body. Musescore has "section" options for all the string parts, but these sound kind of mushy on their own, so I copied their parts into individual strings to give them more definition.
I'm still doing the note entry in Mozart because it's just way faster, since you can do almost everything from the keyboard, while MuseScore seems to require the mouse for a lot of things and takes more than twice as much time to do just the basics.
Disclaimer: Yes, it's synthesized. Obviously real musicians with real instruments would be vastly superior, but this simulated performance is better than nothing at all, which is what existed previously. My greatest wish is that these videos will inspire someone with the means to arrange a real performance and hopefully record and publish it so we can hear them in their full glory. If that someone is you, or you know of an existing recording of this, please let me know and I may add a link to this description.
26 июл 2024
