Stamitz Clarinet Concertos

[LarrySims]

Not terribly long ago, I would swear there was a nice list of Stamitz clarinet concertos available, but now they have all disappeared. Can anyone explain why? I was looking forward to learning some of them with an eye toward performing them with our community orchestra.

[steltz]

I haven't ever seen public domain versions of these concertos. The piano reductions have usually been edited by people still alive, and the reductions frequently count as creative enough to have copyright protection.

Having said that, I would love to see PD versions if someone can find any, and especially the orchestral parts.

[LarrySims]

I glanced at another discussion (argument?) re: Stamitz, so I'm guessing you are correct and the only thing that has been "published" is still too new to be public domain. Maybe someone will come up with the "old original" editions!

Larry

[Eric]

Karl Stamitz (not Johann? I don't think his brother Anton wrote clarinet concertos but maybe...)? It seems one of his was published in 1953 (in E-flat) - too recently to be PD-US, but still PD-CA and possibly hostable on this site I think depending on the death date of the editor ("J. Wojciechowski") which admittedly may well have been after 1960 given the late date of the edition. Still, it may be hostable soon.
(my source offhand.)

[steltz]

Yes, we are talking about Karl, who wrote about 12 concertos for clarinet. His father Johann wrote one (also would be nice on IMSLP, but I doubt there are PD versions).

Johannes Wojciechowski's dates are 1912-2005.