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Most baroque music was never actually copyrighted. These days, the convention is that the copyright of a work belongs to the person who created it unless assigned elsewhere, but it was no always so. When Walsh published Handel's Opus 6 Concerti grossi in 1740, the publisher and the author had to ob...

Well, ok, there you're right, but most of the componists Vienna and Austria is proud of where not native Austrians. Interesting to know is, if Mozart or Beethoven would have asked to be Austrians, if it had been needed in that time ;) By the way, in my last radio programm I have used the IMSLP and U...

Well, as we should remember: Neither Beethoven nor Mozart nor anyone of the famous classical componists of Vienna were originally Austrian. Not even the writer of the Hymn of Austria. Well, when I saw in December, that an Austrian company have forced the IMSLP to go offline, i felt ashame. Because I...