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Actually, I think we need to give more thought to the fact that the messa was first published in 195x. Assuming it was never published before (as the preface to my copy of the messa suggests), that edition might be an "editio princeps", which gives the publisher 70 years of protection from...

@icactus: Great job! @coulonnus: In how far does that help finding the birth/death dates of Charles F Hammond? None of the google results provide any date, except that he was alive in 1906 and 1911. Did he die before/after 1923, before/after 1940, before/after 1960? When exactly did he die? Those ar...

KGill wrote:Well, in a case like this, there are really no strong conclusions to be made, since we have hardly any information on Joseph Schmalnauer.

The homepage of Schott Music lists the death date of Josef Schmalnauer as October 30th, 1973

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Reinhold

Generally, if the Brahms work is in the form it was originally written in (as opposed to an arrangement, like a new orchestration of a piano piece), your new typeset should be fine. The copyright of the new score (in countries where such a new score qualifies for the limited protection given to typ...

I can't see how anyone could argue that continuo realizations aren't original enough, unless it's merely block chords. The Austrian AKM (www.akm.or.at), the Austrian equivalent to the German GEMA or the French SAGEM, apparently takes the stance that continuo realizations (and even vocal scores!) do...

Why would you need ALL scores of a composer? If you want to do some real work (i.e. perform something, or look for a fitting piece for some occasion), I can't imagine a situation where you would need all scores of a composer. On the other hand, if you simply want a collection of as many scores on yo...

While the new categorization project and the category walker is a good idea in principle, I'm fighting with it to find scores for a particular instrumentation. In particular, I'm looking for scores featuring string trio (preferrably Violin, Viola and Cello; but 2Violins and Cello would also be fine)...

The composer page contains the entry fl. 1717 - fl. 1733 for his life dates. After some research I know, what this means. But has everybody the right interpretation of this dates? I doubt that all users of IMSLP understand what fl. means. Even I didn't know about it until the recent thread here in ...

I agree with Carolus here. I only know the situation in Germany and Austria: In Germany, publication (basically, printing) is required to trigger the copyright durations. The Berliner Singakademie lost a court case a while ago, where the finding was that a piece was published during the lifetime of ...

A performance in the composer's lifetime would probably not serve to exempt the work from the 50 year rule, though multiple performances with collection of performance fees by a performing rights society might. Also, the fact that it was published in 1993 - the year his work entered public domain i...

Since the score is a scan, the error is already in the printed edition, so it's not the scanners/uploaders task to correct it. Rather, it should be documented on the "discussion" page of the score, so people can see that there is an error in the printed score already.

Hi I know maybe this isn't the right place for a question of this kind, but I'm looking for a book which my piano teacher has recommended to me and I can't find it except on Amazon.com. The book I'm looking for is "Famous Pianists & Their Technique" by Reginald Gerig. So, you have fou...

Auch von mir eine kleine Korrektur: 1. Der Schutz des "Notenbildes" beträgt nur 50 (nicht 70) Jahre für kommerzielle Nutzung von ansonsten ungeschützten Notenausgaben. Dann kann man in Deutschland sogar einen Reprint ohne Lizenz verkaufen (siehe z.B. Kalmus-Ausgaben). Das Urteil sagt nicht...

Darf ich aus den Noten, die ich hier ausdrucke, ein (bezahltes) Konzert spielen. Die Drucke gibt es ja z.T. noch im Handel (ich denke an Breitkopf und Bach). Es scheint ein kompliziertes Thema zu sein, vor dem die Verlage verständlicherweise Angst haben ... Darf ich z.B. aus dem Viotti Erstdruck (D...

Some of those overlong masses are not really intended for ordinary church service. Special services, like the ordination of a bishop, the coronation of a new king or emperor, or the ordination of a church typically take longer than one hour, and the music for such occasions typically is also far mor...