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Re: Stravinsky: Firebird 1919 Cl. corrections

Author: MusikFind1
Date: 2020-03-22 21:02

The Schott "Critical" Ballet Score was one of the sources studied for the Nieweg/McAlister Firebird Suite 1919 ©2016

Sources:
Ballet Full Score: Pub. Geneva: 1985. Conservatoire de Musique. Manuscript facsimile of the Complete Ballet.
Études et commentaries par Louis Cyr, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Pierre Wissmer. 35 x 46 cm, 167, 61 pp.
Ballet Full Score: Pub: Moscow: Jurgenson ©1910 - assigned to Schott ©1933
Reprint: New York: E.F. Kalmus [19--?]
Reprint: Miami: Edwin F. Kalmus, [200-?] Catalog A3049
Ballet Full Score: Pub. London: Eulenburg, Preface ©1996. Critical Ballet Score: Schott/EU 8043 [parts on rental]
Ballet Full Score: Pub. Moscow: Muzyka, 1964. (Complete Ballet)
Reprint: Mineola: Dover Publications, 1987. [No parts published]

1911 Full Score: Pub. Moscow: Jurgenson, ©1911. Plate 35965
Reprint: Boca Raton: Edwin F. Kalmus, n.d. Catalog A 2132

1919 Full Score: Composer’s Manuscript (ms.) archived at BnF, Bibliothèque nationale France. Code: RES VMA MS-8
1919 Full Score: Pub. London: J. &. W. Chester, Ltd. ©1920 J.W.C. 17
Reprint: New York: Boosey & Hawkes B. & H. No. 573
Reprint: New York: Edwin F. Kalmus, 1932 [Alfred Music] Kalmus miniature orchestra scores, no. 41
1919 Score: Pub.: Boca Raton: Edwin F. Kalmus, ©1985, 1989. Edited Clark McAlister, Catalog A 2131
“To try to capitalize on an existing copyright score, Stravinsky made a new suite of The Firebird for reduced orchestra [1919] and sold it, illicitly as it turned out, to his new London publisher, J. & W. Chester. The first performance was conducted by Ernest Ansermet in Geneva, Victoria-Hall, April 12, 1919.”1
1919 Parts: Pub. London: J. &. W. Chester, Ltd. ©1920 J.W.C. 17
1919 Parts: Pub. London: J. &. W. Chester, Ltd. ©1920 J.W.C. 17, Reprint: New York: Edwin F. Kalmus
There are some minor differences / corrections from the original Chester publication.
1919 Parts: Pub.: Boca Raton: Edwin F. Kalmus, ©1985, 1989. Edited Clark McAlister, Catalog A 2131

1945 Study Score: Pub. NY: Leeds Music Corp. assigned to MCA, Inc. 1973
Reprint: London: Eulenburg. Preface ©1982 Schott. No. EU 1389 [1945 Suite parts on rental]
“Robert Craft writes that Stravinsky created the 1945 suite by consulting not his own Ballet manuscript, but rather the Kalmus reprint of the Chester score available in the U.S. at the time.” 2

Piano Reduction: Moscow: P. Jurgenson, (July 1911). Plates 34903-34919 (Complete Ballet)
Reprint: - New York: G. Schirmer, (ca.1915)
Reprint Mineola: Dover Publications, 2006
Pub. Mainz: Schott Musik International ©1936 ED 3279 (Complete Ballet)
A second piano reduction version was completed 6 December 1918 and dedicated to Vladimir Vasilievich Yuzhin. The manuscript of the first version and an annotated proof of the second are in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. 3
The Kirchmeyer K Catalog gives extensive details about all publications of Firebird in chapter K010. 4

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