Klarinet Archive - Posting 000489.txt from 2004/09

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] A little Monday morning present for all
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:52:55 -0400

Thanks, Dan, for alerting us to the availability of the K.498
autograph. The Bibliotheque Nationale de France seems to be moving well
ahead of other bureaucracies as regards the spirit of "open archives." I
have been monitoring (not too diligently) the library's progress for the
last few years. When in Paris in June I met a woman doing research using
the on-line BNF and she told me that availability of manuscripts was moving
right along but was still a little spotty. The BNF has a manuscript by
Pleyel I've been looking to get for a while so I'll have to take another
look. Having the collection on the Web is a much better way to get it than
having to deal with a French functionary. It is rather like the change
which occurred when the French discovered cell phones and were able for the
first time completely to bypass France Telecom.

Finally, it is interesting to note that the protocol established by the BNF
allows one to poke around more perhaps than the library itself would like
us to do. Note that whereas the manuscript 01164.htm is K.498, 01165.htm
(which one can get simply by modifying the address bar on one's browser) is
the K.338 symphony autograph and 01163.htm is the autograph of Don Giovanni
(the whole opera, I presume).

Thanks again for the "heads up." K.498 is printing out even as I write.

Oliver

At 05:58 AM 9/27/2004, you wrote:
>http://gallica.bnf.fr/Anthologie/notices/01164.htm

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