pml wrote:I am just wondering how could you get the score of Fierrabras?I have checked many websites, there was no one selling it.Can you tell me is it possible to have one at present?
Quite possibly Aldona purchased her score from one of the (now defunct) music retailers here in Gotham City, who kept a colossal amount of stock of classical music in the knowledge it would eventually sell out... eventually.
In the meantime, the 1990s happened and the said retailers were purchased by Allans and Billy (call me Mister) Hyde. So you can't buy Fierrabras anywhere, since its both out of print
and out of stock. Second hand is your best bet.
Good guess!
I have actually acquired a few things from the "now defunct" music retailer - unfortunately the last time I managed to stumble upon their premises was a few days AFTER they had closed.
I remember as a 13-14 year old during the school holidays, with my dad (also music enthusiast) spending the day in the city going around music shops, and walking into aforementioned "now defunct" store and thinking all my Christmases had come at once.
And then coming across a yellow Kalmus full score of "Alfonso & Estrella"...(yes, my addiction DOES go back that far!)...unfortunately at about $200 even back then, it was certainly out of reach of my pocket money and Dad couldn't justify spending that much, when there were music books to be purchased that WERE relevant to my music lessons at the time. But the quest was certainly on, and continued until Homerdundas so helpfully posted the score a few months ago, and on the eve of my birthday no less!
PML and other Melbourne folk might be interested to know that when aforementioned "now defunct" music retailer closed down, a lot of their sheet music stock was transferred to Billy Hyde's Music in Blackburn (much closer to where I hang out...hehehe) and some of it remains there to this day, yellowing Kalmus and Eulenburg scores hidden on the shelves among the newer material, and providing fodder for many a Friday night browse after work.
My copy of "Fierrabras", however, was purchased online through Amazon. If you do an Amazon search for "kalmus schubert" among "Books", you will find lots of interesting things. (All the Schubert Lieder volumes are gone, though, because I have already snapped them up.

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Aldona
“all great composers wrote music that could be described as ‘heavenly’; but others have to take you there. In Schubert’s music you hear the very first notes, and you know that you’re there already.” - Steven Isserlis