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Casimir Antonio Cartellieri (1772-1807)

Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in E flat major

edited by Marco Giani

Casimir Antonio Cartellieri (1772-1807) was born in Danzig. His father was an Italian tenor, his mother came from Riga. His artistic path led him via Berlin to Vienna, where, like Beethoven, he studied with Antonio Salieri and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. His growing success as a composer brought him a job in 1796 with Prince Franz Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz at his castles in Raudnitz and Eisenberg in Bohemia. The famous clarinettist and Mozart friend Anton Stadler familiarized him with the tonal and technical characteristics of the clarinet. This resulted in three concertos, which are among the most compositionally demanding works of the late classical period for this instrument. Inspired by Dieter Klöcker’s CD recordings (1996), the clarinettist Marco Giani published this text-critical edition of the 3rd concerto on the basis of the manuscript sources.

The performance material is available from the publisher upon request.