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Category Archives: Instrumentation
An unaccountable (?) fermata notation in Mozart’s string quartet K. 428
That Mozart, when writing carefully, graphically distinguishes between the dot … Continue reading
Posted in accent, Monday Postings, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, string quartet
Tagged KV 428, Mozart
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40 or 42? Rodolphe Kreutzer’s Etudes as Urtext edition
There could not be a bigger difference: When you are … Continue reading
Posted in 40 Etudes ou Caprices (Kreutzer), Kreutzer, Rodolphe, Monday Postings, Urtext, Violin
Tagged Kreutzer, violin
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Debussy in Urtext – Part 6: Interview with Pascal Rogé
In the final part of our little series we want … Continue reading
Posted in Debussy, Claude, Interview, Pascal Rogé, piano solo
Tagged Debussy, Pascal Rogé
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A tear for or from Rossini?
November 13 marks the 150th anniversary of Gioacchino Rossini’s death, … Continue reading
Rachmaninoff revises Rachmaninoff. On the two versions of the Second Piano Sonata op. 36
In my last blog posting I went into the genesis … Continue reading
From sketch to first edition: the (almost) seamless source documentation of Edward Elgar’s violin sonata
Many Urtext editions and their sources cross the desk of … Continue reading
Posted in Elgar, Edward, genesis, Monday Postings, piano + violin, Sources, Violin Sonata op. 82 (Elgar)
Tagged Elgar, Violin Sonata
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Debussy in Urtext – Part 5: Corrections in the galley proofs for the piano piece “Masques”
Needless to say, every editor of an Urtext edition wishes … Continue reading
Posted in Debussy, Claude, Maques (Debussy), Monday Postings, piano solo, Sources, Urtext
Tagged Debussy, Masques, sources
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The première of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Sonata op. 36
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, Smolensk, Voronezh – what do … Continue reading
The “Picardy” major third in Chopin’s incredibly sad c-sharp minor Nocturne
What a liberating, even redemptive impact that the unexpected major … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, Chopin, Frédéric, copy, Monday Postings, piano solo
Tagged Chopin; Nocturne in c sharp minor
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