Klarinet Archive - Posting 000285.txt from 2008/01

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: instrumentation of Mozart Requiem
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:53:45 -0500

From the Dover Edition:
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This Dover Edition, first published in 1987, is an unabridged
republication of the work originally published by Breitkopf & Hartel,
Wiesbaden, n.d., with the title "Mozart, Requiem fur vier Stingstimmen,
Orchester and Orgel." A table of contents and a table of instruments and
voices have been added.
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Dover editions of scores are, almost entirely to my knowledge, merely
republished out of copyright editions of famous works. I would dare say
they have never edited a note one way or the other in their publications.

-Adam

Daniel Leeson wrote:
> The ideosyncharsies of Dover publishing cannot get in the way of the truth.
> Why and how they put trombones in that movement is a decision that I cannot
> comment on. But unless I have suddenly gone blind, the Sussmayr edition has
> no trombones the Confutatis. Maybe I should look again, but that would a
> sign of insecurity.
>
> The placement of the orchestral instruments in the Dover editions is their
> choice, not Sussmayr's or anyone else's. There is no standard by which one
> can judge where to put instruments on the page of a full score.
>
>

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