Klarinet Archive - Posting 000028.txt from 1996/02

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.NET>
Subj: Shostakovitch Four Waltzes
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 21:44:02 -0500

At 3:28 PM 1/30/96, Lorne G. Buick wrote:
>>That piece is by Shostakovitch. It is called Four Waltzes and the
>>instrumentation is as you say. I am highly suspicious, however, that the
>>piece was arranged by Shostakovitch from something else that he wrote.
>>Does anyone know for sure?
>
>--Jonathan Cohler
>
>My copy of the Shost. 4 Waltzes (Ed. Musica Rara) says on the cover
>"Arranged and transcribed by L. Atoumyan" (no mention of where they come
>from originally).
>

Now that I pulled out my copy, I see it says the same thing. But the
question still remains: arranged from what?

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Jonathan Cohler
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