Leopold Kozeluch - Clarinet Concerto No.2 in E-flat major 

really I agree

It is so well balanced and it has a well rounded solo part with fantastic cadencing to the end of each phrase.

Yep! Love it so much!! Wished I kept playing clarinet....

How old are you artabanes? You have the rest of your life to indulge yourself in the perfection of it.

those are some speedy fingers and a good set of lungs, excellent performance

And now there is ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hZa1YxOopWU.html 😉

ek stem saam Willem, klarinet bly maar koning van die windblasers

Leopold Kozeluch.

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The horn part in the third movement reminds me of a piece by Gottschalk. I can't remember which piece though.

+Berrnt Ortner Hi. I know this response comes a little bit late, but here it is how it stands. The era was different back then, and there wasn't really anything like a trademark or protection of artist work back in the day. Even more so, composers of classical era often stole some ideas from the others. It wasn't looked upon as a violation of copyright, it was just a tool for the composer, if he felt strangled or didnt know how to progress his work, he just "borrowed the idea from somebody else". I hope that cleared it up for you.

I don't recognize the first two movements, but I know that I have heard the main theme of the last movement more than once before, and the attribution was not to this composer. It is a lovely theme.

The opening theme is the same but after about 20 seconds it's a different concerto.

Ewald Czerwenski it was the same in theatre - travelling groups used to write their own version of plays, including Shakespeare, for no other reason than that they didn’t have any copies of the original

From Notes and Editorial Reviews to CD: "The first concerto is indebted to the Mannheim School, while the second, written for the German virtuoso Josef Beer, is (according to Dieter Klöcker’s copious and erudite annotations) based upon the popular Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in Bb by Kozeluch’s countryman, Carl Stamitz, but the Kozeluch concertos are far superior to anything Stamitz wrote for the instrument and along with the concertos of Franz Krommer, run a close second to Mozart’s lone clarinet concerto."

The tune In the beginning look like the concerto of stamitz but it is different concerto

I have the nagging suspicion (being an ex-clarinet player...) that this was a friendlier key for the soloist to play in. If you examine the symphony in c sharp minor by Joseph Martin Kraus you would see that....that's one of maybe TWO works in the 18th century which used c sharp minor. It was probably performed or at least rehearsed and deemed unplayable (or rather a little out of the comfort zone) and then transposed to c minor. So if you look at the lists of pieces of music that these composers used...you'd see they used a lot of the same key since it was better on the ears (of the audience) AND to the musicians. And same exact piece, or same exact key David? I don't quite follow.

Dear Carey, Kozeluch's Number 2 Clarinet Concerto has exactly the same melodies as Carl Stamitz's 11th. I know about keys, but I don't have the same ear as the composers who chose certain keys to express different ideas. I love G minor sturm und drang but for me it wouldn't make any difference which minor key they were played in. I am not yet sophisticated or experienced enough to tell them apart, except when they change keys in mid movement. I have just listened again to the opening orchestral passage and a few bars of the clarinet and, other than the tempo (the Kozeluch is faster) the melodies are an exact match. Kalman Berkes is the clarinettist in the Kozeluch AND in the Stamitz. I am more familiar with Sabine Meyer's performance of the Stamitz, since I have it on CD and play it in the car (at full blast with all the windows open in summer, to teach ruffian sub-woofers a lesson). If this upload really is Kozeluch's No 2, then one or them pinched the opus from the other. Dave

Came here to say this. The third movements are more or less identical.