Anton Stadler (1753 – 1812) was a clarinet and basset horn player for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote both his Quintet for Clarinet and Strings and Clarinet Concerto. Year 1753 ( MDCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1812 ( MDCCCXII) a leap year started on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The clarinet is a Musical instrument in the Woodwind family The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word The basset horn or tenor clarinet (sometimes written basset-horn) is a Musical instrument, a member of the Clarinet family Wolfgang Mozart 's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K 581 was written in 1789 for the Clarinetist Anton Stadler. Mozart 's Clarinet concerto in A major, K 622 was written in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler.
He was reputed to have a beautiful tone, with exceptional mastery of the low register of the basset clarinet and basset horn playing. The basset clarinet is a Clarinet, similar to the usual Soprano clarinet but longer and with additional keys to enable playing several additional lower notes A contemporary Viennese critic, referring to Stadler, wrote, “I would not have thought that a clarinet could imitate the human voice so deceptively as you imitate it. Your instrument is so soft, so delicate in tone that no-one who has a heart can resist it. " A noted virtuoso, he played second to his brother Johann in the Vienna Court Orchestra. A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso, late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus meaning skill manliness excellence is an individual It was possibly this specialism in second clarinet along with the basset horn that led to his collaboration with Theodore Lotz, a clarinet maker. His idea was to add an extension to his B-flat and A clarinets – in the same vein as the basset horn – an extra major third to a low C. It was for this extended clarinet (now known as the basset clarinet but initially called a bass clarinet in the days before the modern bass had been invented) that the Clarinet Concerto and possibly the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings were written. The basset clarinet is a Clarinet, similar to the usual Soprano clarinet but longer and with additional keys to enable playing several additional lower notes The bass clarinet is a Musical instrument of the Clarinet family Mozart 's Clarinet concerto in A major, K 622 was written in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler. Wolfgang Mozart 's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K 581 was written in 1789 for the Clarinetist Anton Stadler.