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With the possible exception of Lohengrin, I haven't seen any of the old Eulenburg Wagner opera scores on IMSLP.org. (The score of Lohengrin I'm referring to was published by Breitkopf and republished by Universal. It appears to have been originally published as a miniature score, and I suspect [though I don't know for sure] that it may have been used for the original Eulenburg miniature score).

Anyway, I'd very much like to see those scores on IMSLP, not least because I think they'd be more readable on an iPad or other similarly sized tablet than the large scores--at least more readable for those of us who have middle-aged eyes.

musicologyman

As a possessor of a few of these editions (which are still available, despite the textual superiority of the new Wagner Edition scores that Eulenburg also publishes), they would be a real pain to scan without disassembling the bindings. The thickness of the volumes means "gutter" shadows and focus would be problems. And then there's the page count. Both Meistersinger and Gotterdammerung themselves come in 2 volumes. I'll let somebody else do the dirty work.

--Sixtus

I think I'll pass as well. Scanning the entire Ring from large-format scores meant beating them into submission on the scanner glass which has since given me Wagner fatigue.