Weber: Clarinet Quintet, op. 34
Carl Maria von Weber
Work title
Clarinet Quintet, op. 34
Composition date
1811–15
Selected manuscript sources
Autograph fair copy (1815), made by Weber for his own archive (1815), available in D-B Mus.ms.autogr. Weber, C. M. v., WFN 14 (2)
Copyist’s manuscript with corrections by Weber of movements I–III are available in US-Wc ML30.8b .W4 op. 34 ; movement IV available in D-B Weberiana Cl. I,14
Autograph by Weber of arrangement for clarinet and piano is available in US_Wc ML30.8b .W4 op. 34
Early Prints
First edition by Schlesinger pl. 183 (1816).
Carl Baermann edition
Robert Lineau/Schlesinger S. 5580, version for clarinet and strings and clarinet and piano. The clarinet part and piano score are available as part of the Edirom digital edition. The original version is reprinted as Lineau RL 36100 an the piano arrangement as RL 36110.
As with all of Baermann's editions, there are extensive alterations and additions to dynamics, articulation, and expression markings. Allroggen and Holtstreater also suggest it can be presumed that Baermann was responsible for editing the string parts. The piano part in Baermann's edition deviates from Weber's arrangement.
Metronome Marks:
I: Allegro: crotchet = 108
II: Fantasia Adagio ma non troppo: quaver = 42
III: Menuetto Capriccio Presto:: dotted minim = 92
IV: Rondo Allegro giojoso: crotchet = 112
Modern critical editions
Weber Sämtliche Werke VI Bd. 3., Schott WGA 1063 (2005), edited by Gerhard Allroggen and Knut Holtstraeter. Also available as Schott ED 9186 (parts) and Eulenberg ETP 384 (minature score).
The Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe also produced an online digital edition on the platform Edirom which allows users to view commentary and source images in context via an annotated digital score.
Brietkopf EB5830 (2000), edited by Guenter Hausswald, Wolfgang Meyer and Christoph Poppen.
Breitkopf EB8753 (2000), piano reduction by Weber, edited by Ulrich Leisinger,
Notes
For a detailed discussion of the sources relating to this work, see the Weber Gesamtausgabe and Edirom digital edition as well as the preface and commentary by Allroggen and Holtstreater.
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