You can download Mozart s music. You can t download his genius!

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1 You can download Mozar s music. You can download his genius!

2 Afer so many canaas I only lay for fun. My original work is for he fans. Bu wha is an urex ediion? Bärenreier Urex: Your nex erformance is worh i. Think of he ime you send racising and rehearsing for lessons and concers. Can you really be sure ha he music you lay from reflecs wha he comoser waned? Indeed, works have always been edied reflecing he ase of he ime, ofen leading o a gradual deviaion from wha he comoser had in mind. Mos coied or downloaded music comes from old, heavily edied or even fauly ediions. How disaoining o realise ha you have wased your ime and energy on a musical ex you canno rus. Wih Bärenreier Urex ediions you can have confidence in he validiy of he musical ex. A Bärenreier he label urex describes a scholarlycriical ediion based on all known sources. In he as, i has ofen been difficul for musicians o really know if wha hey were laying was rue o he comoser s inenions. Publicaions were heavily elaboraed wih ediors own ofen quesionable addiions and inerreaions. In order o adequaely judge he qualiy of an ediion, musicians would need o examine manuscris and sources hemselves. Bärenreier akes on all his background work for you, our aim being o roduce urex ediions reflecing he laes musicological research. Our ediors, exers in heir field, srive o se down a work as closely as ossible o he comoser s inenions. This isn as easy as i sounds. Bärenreier s musicologiss ofen have o ravel around he world o rack down sources for a comosiion. They work like deecives, decihering manuscris which are someimes almos illegible and evaluaing conflicing sources.

3 Debussy, Sonaa for Violoncello and Piano, age from comoser s auograh Debussy, Sonaa for Violoncello and Piano, m. 18, Bärenreier Urex ediion BA Mouv Isn urex jus a coy of he auograh? As a musician you cerainly can areciae how difficul i can be o gras wha he comoser acually inended, esecially when we have no recordings of he erformances. Simly looking a he auograh assuming i exiss is no enough. Wha if he comoser made correcions in he firs rined ediion? Obviously in his case he auograh only rovides ar of he sory of a comosiion. As many sources as ossible need o be assessed in order o comile a Bärenreier Urex ediion including skeches, leers, auograhs, manuscri coies, roofs, firs ediions, firs ediions wih auograh correcions, conemorary reviews and commens by conemoraries. No cos or effor is sared by Bärenreier when i comes o amassing and iecing ogeher all he available informaion. An indisensable ar of every urex ediion is he criical commenary where all ediorial decisions and discreancies beween he sources are meiculously recorded. Only in his way can he rue genius of he comoser and his work be revealed. Mouv Wha else can I exec from a Bärenreier Urex ediion? sf A rusworhy musical ex alone does no ye jusify he label Bärenreier Urex. Inegral ars of Bärenreier Urex ediions are: Informaion on he genesis and hisory of he work A descriion of he sources Valuable noes on erformance racice A criical commenary exlaining all source discreancies and ediorial decisions. 22 Bu i s no all abou musicology. Bärenreier also saisfies your racical needs as a erformer. Bärenreier Urex ediions offer: Page urns, fold-ou ages, and cues where you need hem For solo sring works addiional ars wih fingering and bowing In he case of solo conceros and vocal scores sraigh-forward iano reducions A well-resened layou and a user-friendly forma Excellen rin qualiy Suerior aer and binding Solid, Made in Germany qualiy 25 Fuoco arco f Fuoco

4 Debussy, Sonaa for Violoncello and Piano, comoser s skech Le s ake his as an examle *) o // suivez suivez 3 Mouv izz. Mouv semre Wha does he word urex mean? izz. Mouv Mouv Mouv // mf The German refix ur- lierally means original or earlies. The earlies use of he erm urex goes back o he 19h cenury where i aeared in connecion wih lierary exs. I referred o he original exs of wriers such as Goehe or Shakeseare which scholars ried o resore and free from ediorial addiions. // // In music urex now is a label used for scholarly-criical ediions based on all known sources. // molo arco Mouv 3 mf // If we ake Claude Debussy s lae maseriece, his Sonaa for Violoncello and Piano from 1915, we have no less han 11 sources and his does no even include his corresondence. These sources comrise several coies of he work given by he comoser o friends wih annoaions, bu he rimary sources are he skeches S, he auograh score A, and he firs ediion. The firs ediion very closely follows he auograh bu here has always been a misundersood symbol in he cello ar (movemen 2, measure 18). All oher ediions of his sonaa resen his symbol o as an oen sring. Bu is his correc? The final noe in he bar is he lowes noe on he cello, he oen C sring. There is no reason whasoever for he comoser o have indicaed he oen sring wih o as he one can only be execued as an oen sring. Wha if Debussy inended a differen execuion wih he symbol o? If his were he case wha could i be? Oher han an oen sring i could mark a harmonic bu for a harmonic he emloys he radiional symbol of a diamond shaed head in he same movemen in mm Looking a Debussy s auograh, we find no answer o his quesion. Bu going back one se in he chronology of he work and looking a he skeches for he comosiion we find a circle above he noe in quesion and in addiion he word izz. wrien above i. This izzicao has never been ublished and hus never been erformed. For he firs ime he Bärenreier Urex ediion gives jusice o Debussy s inenion. Mouv // This shows one of many examles ha Bärenreier Urex is no simly a coy of he auograh or a re-engraving of he firs ediion; i reresens a horough examinaion of all asecs of a work enriching our undersanding of i wih conclusive resuls.

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