Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 36 - Clarinet and Piano

Frantisek Vincenc Kramar's birthplace was in today's Czech Republic.  He worked his way up through official and church positions in today's Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria before becoming Kapellmeister and court composer to the Imperial Court of Austria, succeeding Leopld Kozeluch.  Along the way he adopted the form of his name known to musicians today, Franz Vinzenz Krommer.  

Living from 1759 to 1831, Krommer had plenty of time to write plenty of music.  He covered all the usual forms:  Masses with orchestra, motets, symphonies, concertos, string quartets, various sonatas and chamber ensembles, and piano/harpsichord music.  Even though he was a violinist and organist, he wrote well for wind instruments and wrote marches, serenades, and "parthias" for serenade-sized ensembles.

Krommer's Clarinet Concerto, Op. 36, was first published in 1803.  The Southern edition, published in 1988, is a practical performing edition by Bernard Portnoy, a distinguished American orchestral player and teacher of a couple of generations ago.  Markings in types of passages similar to one another are very consistent.  The few spots with cued notes show them in a smaller size than the soloist's notes, but the tendency is to use rests instead of cued notes.  Edition has measure numbers, spaced ten measures apart, but no rehearsal letters or numbers.