Carl Baermann to Friedrich Wilhelm von Jahns, 19 April 1868
To Friedrich Wilhelm von Jahns
Source D-B, Weberiana Cl. X, Nr. 25
Transcription Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, Weber-Gesamtaugabe (Version 4.8.1 of August 21, 2023)
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Summary Baermann provides a series of clarifications in response to questions from Jahns about Weber’s works. He then responds in more detail to questions about the works for clarinet and orchestra. He contests Jahns’s apparent assertion that the E flat concerto is the superior work, claiming the F minor concerto to be freer, more ‘sublime’ and inventive, ‘all fresh and free from Weber’s breast’. He goes on to claim that his father loved the work more and that Mendelssohn considered it ‘more spiritual’. Baermann further remembers hearing from his father than Weber felt the same, but is not certain.
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