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I wrote to the Musee D'Orsay asking them how they got the score of James Ensor's ballet La Gamme d'Amour they are doing soon. There is a copy of it in the closed stacks of the NYPL. He was a musician as well as a painter who played the harmonium. I wonder, since he lived till 1949, whether anybody r...

I'm patient. I'm not worried. I'm sure of few things but one of them is that IMSLP and sites like it are going to replace the means of distribution of music. Copyrights turn to PD as caviar becomes dung.. Suits about scans will inspire somebody to come up with a scanning program that will read scans...

I'm glad to hear about other people who look to enjoy talent like Joseph Wolfl . Thanks. My own view is that music operates on different values than money; when one is playing an intelligent and gifted composer like Wolfl one is in initmate resonance with somebody whose very spirit is a kind of stan...

I found and downloaded some Wolfl trios in the Bayerische Staatsbibliotek at the Menchener Digitalissat Bestilung. I'm probably spelling it wrong but this is I think that huge building in Munich: the Munich Library. This is an incredible site.I think these people are digitalizing their entire librar...

I've seen both spellings of Wolfl in books and on Google: Wolfl and Woelfl. It's mostly Wolfl. We don't have an umlaut in English.In the book where I first found Wolfl the editor points out that what singles out Beethoven is his ability to organize. Composers like Wolfl had plenty of talent. I think...

I have a privately scanned copy of some of his music I made from Beethoven and his Rivals or some such title, a great book, a made for my own nefarious purpose, playing it, back in the 80s. Since then things have happened. There are some CD recordings of Wolfl now.these pianists had to play from som...

HI. I've been playing over Joseph Wolfl's pianos scores. He's pretty good, might be great. Anybody want to upload them and start him on a new career?
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