Klarinet Archive - Posting 001164.txt from 1997/08

From: John Aleksander <alekfam@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Weber, Carl Maria Von or Weber, Carl Maria von
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:39:38 -0400

>In the course of doing research I see the spelling both ways of the
>(v,V)on - the New York Research Library has it capitalized in their
>catalogs, but few other references do.
>
>Is there a preferred capitalization scheme? Is this something that
>has changed due to "performance practice"? (possibly capitalized
>during the composer's lifetime but is not usually capitalized today?)

In grammatically correct German, it should be a lower-case v.

Elizabeth Aleksander
alekfam@-----.com