To the question of how many cello concertos Joseph Haydn left us there have been startlingly different answers in the last 200 years: Haydn’s own works’ catalogue of 1805 lists three concertos; in the 19th century the number grew to eight before it was reduced in the 20th century to those five found in Anthony van Hoboken’s catalogue of Haydn’s works. But our Urtext catalogue records only two! Why’s that? The short answer is that our Haydn Urtext Editions go back to the complete edition, Joseph Haydn Werke – and not only to what is printed, but also to what is not printed. The long answer provides an insight into a special area of Haydn research, the issue of authenticating the works dealt with under his name. Continue reading
Search
Subscribe2
-
Recent Posts
- The elders’ errors tenaciously persist. On the violin solo entry in Mozart’s D-major Violin Concerto, K. 218
- Arnold Schönberg on his 150th birthday – the truth in the music (and in the edition)
- If we hadn’t had the chance… the rediscovery of a new Prokofiev source
- Summer break
- Once again, a tight squeeze – the joy and sorrow of the Urtext cover
Tags
accidentals arrangements autograph Bach Bartók Beethoven Brahms Carnival Chopin Christmas clarinet Complete Edition Debussy Double bass Dvorak dynamics Fauré first edition Haydn Hoffmeister horn instrumentation Liszt Mendelssohn Mozart notation piano piano concerto piano sonata Rachmaninoff Ravel revision Saint-Saëns Schubert Schumann Scriabin string quartet urtext variant reading variants variations versions viola Violin Concerto Violin Sonata