![]() Parts of the minuet and the opening Allegro were sketched over the next few days, though the Allegro was not finished until April 1813. Weber wrote no fewer than six works for Baermann: a Concertino, two concertos, a set of variations with piano accompaniment, the Grand Duo Concertant in which two virtuosos are matched on equal terms, and the present Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, J182.Ī note in Weber’s diary for 24 September 1811 reads, ‘Began comp: Quintett for Bär:’. A report from the Paris correspondent of the Leipzig Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1818 praises Baermann’s skill, with particular mention for his musical taste and for the warmth of his tone, ‘which has not the slightest strain or shrillness in it, both of which are so common among clarinettists’. Two years older than Weber, Baermann had already made a name for himself as a clarinettist, and the warmth and richness of his tone and style gave the instrument an appeal to Weber which was rivalled only by that of the horn. Settling in Heidelberg and Darmstadt, he made musical friends to whom were added, on a visit to Munich in mid-March 1811, Heinrich Baermann. ![]() Early in 1810, having been briefly imprisoned for debt, Weber was escorted by the police across the Württemberg frontier and banished for life.
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