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Author: Plonk
Date: 2019-10-18 19:51
What is the most authentic reading of bar 53 in Weber 2nd Concerto 2nd mvmnt?
My score (Boosey and Hawkes 1963 and riddled with errors) has D-C-Bb as the end notes of the trill.
Every performance I've listened to has the same, and Eulenberg Leipzig score on IMSLP does too.
However, the other score on IMSLP, which looks older, has C-Bb-A as the end of the trill.
Who to believe? What's the most authentic source, and best edition of the work (w/ piano pls).
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Author: kdk
Date: 2019-10-18 21:04
The Henle edition offers two versions. The one based on the first edition and Weber's own copies shows a three-note ending: three equal notes written D-C-Bb (concert C-Bb-A). The Carl Baermann version (based on his father's performance copies) show the same pitches, but written out rhythmically on the last eighth-note beat of the bar as 16th-32nd-32nd. The Henle editors make no claim to have any way to know how Weber would have meant the trill to end, and the Baermann version is Carl's transcription of what he tells us Heinrich Baermann actually did in performance. My Dover score, which doesn't credit a source, is written the way the notes appear in the Henle/Baermann version. The older one at IMSLP is a manuscript done in 1850 (or so the citation says) apparently in Italy from the Italian on the title page, so it can't have any more claim to authority than the sources Henle uses.
I'm not sure in the end why it matters. It's only an embellishment. If the Baermann version is any indication, a great deal of freedom was given the performer, at least one of Heinrich Baermann's standing.
Karl
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