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Author: salzo
Date: 2010-03-04 17:39
Is the music for this arrangement of the flute sonata still in print? I would like to get a copy, anyone know where I could find one for sale?
Thanks for any help.
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2010-03-05 02:41
Unless I am missing something, music generally become "public domain" 50 years after the composer dies, correct? Prokofiev died in 1953, so...
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Author: mrn
Date: 2010-03-05 03:24
skygardener wrote:
> Unless I am missing something, music generally become "public
> domain" 50 years after the composer dies, correct? Prokofiev
> died in 1953, so...
In the U.S. it's more complicated than that. For works written today, the copyright term is life+70 years. For works first published in the period 1923-1977, it's generally 95 years from date of first publication (which is why Rhapsody in Blue is still under copyright, for instance)--that's assuming all formalities (including copyright renewal at 28 years) were performed.
With Prokofiev, his works first published in the Soviet Union were all originally public domain in the U.S. because the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not have a copyright treaty in force to permit mutual recognition of each others' copyrights.
However, when TRIPS "happened," copyright to many Soviet-era works (those not in the public domain in Russia at that time, that is) was "restored" in the U.S. as if the authors had complied with the application U.S. formalities. Since it hadn't been 50 years from Prokofiev's death in 1996, Prokofiev's works have restored copyright under TRIPS/URAA, so it's 95 years from publication date for the Prokofiev Sonata.
The ironic thing is that when they were both still alive, Prokofiev and Shostakovich actually sued a filmmaker in the U.S. for using their music without permission and lost because the U.S. recognized no copyright in their works at the time.
The REALLY ironic thing, though, is that although this work is now under copyright in the U.S., it should now be in the public domain in Russia, because the life+50 copyright term expired in 2003 and Russia didn't switch to the life+70 copyright term until 2004, when it would have been too late for Prokofiev.
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Author: salzo
Date: 2010-03-05 10:38
MRN-
Thanks for the link.
I checked sheetmusic plus, but I searched for "prokofiev clarinet sonata", and nothing came up.
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