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Re: Are there any Daniel Bonade students left?

Author: kdk
Date: 2025-08-02 18:27

Mike Cyzewski wrote:

> Michael Faulhaber studied with Bonade in France as a Fullbright
> scholar in the 1960s.
> He claimed that Bonade's excerpt book is riddled with mistakes
> because he wrote it from memory since he was largely blind at
> that time.

We all used those books (including the McGinnis and Drucker excerpt books published by International Music Co.) knowing they were full of errors. But I still have my copy of the Bonade excerpts (you probably still have yours, too) and it has a 1947 copyright - a little earlier that Faulhaber apparently studied with him. I'd never heard that Bonade had lost his sight - I wonder when that happened.

A more likely explanation for the errors might be that Bonade may not have had access to the original parts for everything in the book. OMCDRL and IMSLP make seeing the full published parts simple today, but in the 1940s, maybe it wasn't so easy.

Karl

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