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The Library of the Milan Conservatorio di Musica has posted online a huge collection of valuable manuscripts and scores from its historical collection. However, it has blocked the download function of the website's display software. For some inexplicable technical reason, my computer cannot even vie...

KGill, You mentioned "first publication rights." This is a question about first publication rights, not about Mahler's Adagietto. If a facsimile manuscript for a 19th C. score (never before published) was published in 2008, and an edited typset edition of the same work is published in 2011...

Very strange. I can no longer view any of the digital images of musical manuscripts on the website of the Milan Conservatory -- despite making many attempts with two different computers. Is the collection no longer on display, or have I been blocked in retaliation for the discussion on IMSLP?

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I am not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV.) Nevertheless, from my lay perspective, the claim of legal protection for the 19th C. manuscripts on the website of the Milan Conservatory strikes me as similar, if not identical, to the claims of copyright protection now in litigation in the Coetzee lawsu...

An interesting legal issue has come up on the Italian forum. The Library of the Milan Conservatory has posted a large scanned collection of important musical manuscripts on its website -- mostly from the 19th Century and earlier. Many of these works have never been published. Some are manuscripts of...

Grazie Caprotti, per il link ai manoscritti del Conservatorio di Milano. Ci sono dei tesori in questa collezione. Però, come ha detto Lei, non è possible fare il download per queste partiture. Mi domando perchè hanno speso una somma favolosa per la scansione, e fatto un lavoro enorme, per mostrare t...

'Tis a pity to hear that the Szechenyi National Library is so tight-fisted. It includes the Esterhazy Library -- which holds not only most of the manuscripts of Joseph Haydn, but all of the manuscripts of his brother Michael. Tons of unpublished works just waiting there -- for centuries -- virtually...

Zsadanyi's works were mostly -- but not all -- virtuoso pieces for violin and piano. They are of great musical and technical interest. They were published in Budapest at the end of the 19th C. by Rozsavolgyi es Tarsa , Budapest and distributed by Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig. Among them: A csikls...

Please post anything and everything PD by this Hungarian composer.

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È vero che gli ostacoli sono moltissimi nelle biblioteche italiane per ottenire l'acesso agli archivi dei manoscritti. Però, la chiave per entrare in questa tomba oscura è questa: si dovrebbe andare personalmente alle biblioteche, trovare le opere da solo, e coppiare i manoscritti con una macchina f...

Ci sono pochi le opere musicali di Giovanni Bottesini che sono rappresentate nel archivio IMSLP. Bottesini era una personalità favolosa nel Novecento – come virtuoso del contrabbasso, come direttore d’orchestra, e come compositore di una grande varietà di meravigliose musiche nello stile del Bel Can...

Many thanks to the LOC for posting the two cornet/piano solos by Casey. Please keep them coming, especially virtuoso cornet (or trumpet or keyed-bugle) solos. (Either with piano accompaniment; or even better, with concert band. There was a wealth of repertoire for solo cornet -- even if nowadays 99....

One group who will undoubtedly benefit in the future from the many sets of orchestral parts now posted on IMSLP are symphony orchestras -- from community orchestras to top professional orchestras. The parts on IMSLP will not only save them money that is usually spent on rental or purchase of PD perf...

I believe the orchestral score and orchestral parts for both of Alkan's Concerti da camera are available on hire from Edition Billaudot, Paris. Incidentally, you might also be interested in my orchestration of Alkan's Piano Concerto from Opus 39. The first movement can be auditioned at: http://notew...

Virtuoso cornet solos were enormously popular at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. They have not only virtually disappeared from modern-day performances (recitals, band/orchestra concerts,) but much of the sheet music in this genre has vanished from sight. I, for one, would be most interested in ...