Klarinet Archive - Posting 000093.txt from 2009/11

From: "Clinton F. Nieweg" <proofferr@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Orchestral parts for Otello
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:48:57 -0500

The link that was given is to a dealer who uses the name Kalmus.com
but buys the music from the publisher Edwin F. Kalmus, Boca Raton Fl. The
correct
website for the publisher Edwin F. Kalmus is <http://www.kalmus-music.com>

The direct link for the Kalmus edition of Otello is
http://www.kalmus-music.com/kalorchdetail.php?r=6705

Catalog number A2343
Composer VERDI, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Title Otello
Instrumentation 3d1, 2+1, 2+1, 4 - 4, 2+2, 4, 0, timp, perc, hp, str
(2.2.1.1.1).
vocal soli (9 roles, SATTTBBBB), chorus, banda (4hn, 6tpt, str, mand,
gtrs).

Reprint Source: Ricordi.

Comments from Clark McAlister, VP & Chief Editor EFKALMUS@-----.com

> Somewhere in the 1980s, Ricordi sued Kalmus for reproducing their
rental parts.
I've been at Edwin F. Kalmus LC since 1982, and this is the first I've
heard of this.

>The judge threw out the case against Kalmus.
Like I said--that's news to me.

> The Kalmus parts differ to an unknown degree from the Ricordi parts.
Kalmus made changes and corrections.
Not to my knowledge, we didn't.
Clark McAlister
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Forward by Clinton F. Nieweg
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I contacted the party who is responsible for the critical edition of Verdi's

music and which is not yet available. This means that Clarke and Forest are
playing from one or two different earlier editions.
According to the best information available to me, the orchestral parts for
Otello were first prepared by and rented from Ricordi. Somewhere in the
1980s, Ricordi sued Kalmus for reproducing their rental parts.
The judge threw out the case against Kalmus.
The Kalmus parts differ to an unknown degree from the Ricordi parts. Kalmus

made changes and corrections, though no one really knows how this was
accomplished and who did it, nor is there a list of the precise differences
between the editions. Certainly, one could undertake and effort to come up
with a list of differences, but that would cost a fortune and it is unlikely

that we'll never know the answer to that one.
The Kalmus edition runs over $1300 for a conductor's score and a full
complement of orchestral parts. You can read about it on:
http://www.kalmus.com/product_detail.php?id=39810
So getting back to what started this thread, Clarke Fobes commented on a
peculiar difference in a C clarinet part, the note being too low. The fact
that there are two sets of orchestral parts one of which can be rented while

the other is only sold clouds the picture to the point where it is very
difficult to conclude on this matter. Forest, who happens to be playing the

work right now in Dallas, was unable to find that same peculiarity in his
set of performance parts.
Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net

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