Klarinet Archive - Posting 000227.txt from 1998/05

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Fire Engine Red Brahms
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 09:10:20 -0400

Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
>
> > From: MX%"klarinet@-----.83
> > Subj: [kl] Brahms Sonatas at auction
>
> > Greetings,
> > Recently a friend of mine who studies with Charlie Neidich at Stony Brook told
> > me that the original Brahms sonatas were being auctioned in New York
> > (Southeby's I think). They were available for limited viewing, before they
> > were flown to London. Apparently, the Muhlfeld estate has finally released
> > them, and Mr. Neidich got to view them and was checking some inaccuracies
> > with the current urtext edition. His fear was that they would fall into a
> > private collection and be lost to the rest of us. Wouldn't there be any
> > facsimiles of these scores that would be accurate? What did Henle and
> > Barenrieter use for their current urtext editions, if not the manuscripts? I
> > wonder if they've been sold yet and for how much? I wish the library of
> > Congress would pick them up, or the Eastman Library.
> > Bye for now,
> >
> > Mario Estrada,
> > Florida West Coast Synphony
>
> Unless something very new has happened, this information is about
> 6 months old. The autographs of both Brahms sonatas were put up
> for sale and sold in London somewhere around last October.
>
> And in any case, two very excellent urtext editions of these
> works, both of which had facsimiles of the autographs, came
> out at least 10 years ago. The edition name escapes me. This
> is a problem of age. All I remember is that the cover was fire
> engine red.
>
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>
>
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
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>WIENER URTEXT EDITION

This is that flaming red cover of the Brahms clarinet Sonatas.

It says on it: Wiener Urtext Edtion, Musikverlag Ges. m.b. H&Co.
K.G.Wien

Distributed by B.Schott's Sohne, Mainz/ Universal Edition, Wien

Edited from the engraver's copy and original edition by Hans-Christian
Muller.

Clarinet part edited by Jost Michaels

Avrahm Galper

http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html

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