Haydn Operas

[vinteuil]

Are there any PD scores of any of these (perhaps Altmann edited a few for Eulenburg?)?
If only for the sake of completeness...and a few are very nice. L'Isola Disabitata in particular would be welcome.

[sbeckmesser]

As far as I know, Eulenburg has never published a Haydn opera, PD or not. There is a mini score of L'infedelta delusa published by Philharmonia/Universal. It is old enough to possibly be PD in some areas. I believe the rest of the Haydn operas are even more recent publications in the new Haydn edition and therefore not PD.

--Sixtus

[jfarrington]

We have several of Haydn's opera scores, but only one (an 1895 ed. by Gutmann of the vocal score to Der Apotheker (Lo speziale) is PD.

[vinteuil]

That would be great! More opera on Sibley!

[Lyle Neff]

You see why we need to invent a time machine? -- So that we can go back in time and cause very old works currently in modern editions to be published in OLDER editions.

[sbeckmesser]

Actually, what we need is online availability of the original theoretically PD sources for the copyrighted modern editions. Then musicology trained amateur engravers can go to town creating their own PD critical editions and not another setting of the Brandenburgs or Four Seasons.

--Sixtus