"IMSLP's biggest holes" - Most Wanted Scores

[daphnis]

This isn't exactly a "big hole" because it isn't a widely-known piece. Something like this should go in the general Score Requests forum. We're trying to use this thread for famous and significant works that aren't present at IMSLP.

[gustav]

We could do with FS of Mahler Symphonies 2,3,4 and 7. 2 and 7 currently have critical edition scores that are blocked although reprints of earlier editions are available.

Bartok
Rhapsody Op. 1 (1904) FS
Scherzo Op. 2 FS (piano & orchestra)
Kossuth FS
The Wooden Prince FS

Dohnanyi
The Veil of Pierrette Op 18
Symphony no. 1 Op 9
Suite in F-sharp minor, Op. 19

and the major chamber works.

It would be good to have Enescu's symphonies in FS as virtually any Georges Enescu is extremely hard to find these days thanks to his publishers putting many titles out of print.

[daphnis]

Dohnányi won't be public domain in Canada until 1 January of next year, and we really don't want to start posting any of his works until the summer months at the earliest.

[KGill]

Bartok's Kossuth was first published in full score in 1963 and is therefore under copyright worldwide.
The Wooden Prince was published in 1921 by UE and could be uploaded and accessible. (I have no idea how rare this score is, however.)
Scherzo, Op.2: orchestral version published 1961, 2-piano version published 1962. Under copyright worldwide.
In addition, it appears that Piano Concerto No.3 was published in 1947, so it could be uploaded, but it'd be blocked with [TB]. (Incidentally, I found a 1939 date, but I suspect that this is incorrect.)

[dwil9798]

Thanks for the Jenufa vocal score Daphnis.

[Carolus]

The 1963 Kossuth full score was not renewed, apparently. The items issued by Editio Musica Budapest in the 1950s up through 1963 seem to have been largely ignored for renewal.

[aldona]

There are still a few works to be uploaded to make up the Schubert Complete Works (Breitkopf & Härtel).
Just glancing briefly through the list, it looks like we are missing:
- Volume 3 (Octets) - Octet, D.72
- most of Volume 8 (works for piano and one instrument)- only the Rondeau Brillant D.895 for violin and piano is up
- Volume 14 (smaller sacred works) - nos. 1-10 and 23 onwards
- Volume 15 (dramatic works) - Des Teufels Lustschloss, Die Zauberharfe, Rosamunde
- Volume 16 (works for male chorus) - nos. 1-8, 31, 32, 34 onwards
- Volume 17 (works for mixed chorus) - nos. 2-19
- Volume 18 (works for female chorus) - nos. 7-16

The complete Schubert works have recently appeared (or are in the process of appearing) on the Munich Digitisation Centre (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) website. Could those with the knowledge and tools to process these and remove the BSB watermark please consider this worthy cause?

Aldona

[dwil9798]

Daphnis, will Cunning Little Vixen be taken out of [TB] status, or will it remain that way?

[daphnis]

It'll unfortunately remain that way since it's still under protection in the US. However, there are a couple more vocal scores coming that are PD in the US.

[dwil9798]

Too bad. Well thanks anyway and keep up the great work. Can't wait for Ká?a Kabanová.

[sbeckmesser]

I'm astonished that IMSLP doesn't have a complete full score of Weber's Der Freischütz, one of the most important operas ever written aside from being an excellent piece of music-theater. A full score is necessary since its orchestration was fundamental in creating the sound of the 19th-century orchestra, especially in the use of horns and especially in Germany. Dover has a reprint, thank goodness.

--Sixtus

[daphnis]

Full score is coming sometime soon.

[John Ruggero]

The complete sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti in any good authentic edition, and/or the Kirkpatrick facsimile.

The infamous Longo edition now on the site tampers with the text to a great degree as well as adding unauthentic markings, and the more authentic Sankey version only offers 1-200 and in a strange typography that preserves the original layout very well but omits the repeat marks (?!)

John Ruggero

[daphnis]

Alright, I'm giving in and adding Mahler 3 and 4 from Dover reprints since we currently don't have either (aside from the poor scans of 4) and they would be most useful.

[sbeckmesser]

Alright, I'm giving in and adding Mahler 3 and 4 from Dover reprints.

Don't feel too bad, at least in the case of Sym. 4, since the Dover reprint is closer to the Critical Edition in terms of audible changes than Sym. 3. The Dover scores that deviate most from the Critical Edition versions are of Syms. 5, 6 and 7. There are even three Critical Editions of Sym. 5 (two sponsored by the Mahler Gesellschaft and one Eulenburg mini score), the most recent MG score probably being the best. It has been completely re-engraved and is by far the easiest to read. Further new MG editions (such as Sym.2 and 7) are upcoming to replace their older publications that fall short in musicological rigor, especially in the thoroughness of their Critical Reports. It's a pity that IMSLP doesn't reprint these reports along with their attached scores, as has happened in the Czech Dvorak edition.

--Sixtus

see the "Vorschau" (Plans) page at http://www.gustav-mahler.org/