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What a shame that you've hijacked this forum to discuss licensing buggery in America, couldn't you restrict your conversations to private messaging and let us get on with discussing music in public?

At the moment I'm exploring the flute quartets (Op.7) by J.B. Vanhal, One of the many composers of the Maddox Petrovsky repertoire was Mathias Stabinger (1739-?1815) whose russian operas must be presumed lost, but his instrumental works op. I to VII have survived, with the flute playing an influent...

Interesting and intelligent response - thanks! Listening to Mozart's music brings to mind adjectives such as "polished" and "perfect" and "mathematically precise" - not a note out of place, and not a chord where it shouldn't be. I think that were the resources and perfo...

Why Mozartophilia? - is orchestration the answer? Or a register of compulsive comparers of every other composer and their works with this chap and his. Just an observation after a frustrating day trying to explore other late 18th century composers without the constant repetition of Wolfgang Amadeus'...

Fugue from Dittersdorf's 'Giob'.

Can't better the quote from Carl Spazier in the sleeve notes - "...wrings ardent admiration from connoisseurs and astonishment from ordinary audiences..."

I take the point about not adding composers to the IMSLP list until able to upload one or more PD scores, but how about a 'composers in waiting' list, perhaps to prompt those with available material to scan and upload sooner rather than later. Because of my Maddox Petrovsky Repertoire Project, I'd p...