“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
A classic example of what happens when you don't bother to look up the publication info. It's clearly a scan of a reprint of the original 19th century French edition - probably by Kalmus. I just un-blocked it after opening the PDF and being able to see what it is.
Hopefully, there aren't too many of these type of things remaining. That's one of the reasons it takes a long time to review files. If there's no information about the piece, we have to look it up ourselves - which adds to review time.
Carolus wrote:A classic example of what happens when you don't bother to look up the publication info. It's clearly a scan of a reprint of the original 19th century French edition - probably by Kalmus. [...]
That is the edition reprinted by Kalmus. (I have the Kalmus core out in my garage with the other organ music that I'm not using.)
Great piece. I played it on an undergrad student recital, and later several times as a prelude for church service.
Kalmus has its flaws to be sure, but they have probably kept a lot of things in print that would otherwise be unavailable completely or only in very expensive editions. Their printing quality has improved some in recent years, too (the actual Kalmus in Florida, that is - the Kalmus/Belwin/Alfred stuff is often printed from the last copy on the shelf). I came across a recent reprint of the Schirmer vocal score for the Mikado in a used book store that was pretty nasty.
Yes, some of the Kalmus stuff is lacking in quality. Also, the binding, at least for thick scores (of New York vintage) doesn't necessarily hold up.
This morning I finished scanning the Kalmus reprint full score of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Snowmaiden" (soon to be edited and uploaded), and 3-4 of the last signatures (or is it "gatherings"?) came unglued from the spine, the last one falling out completely. Same kind of thing is happening to my Kalmus reprint of Balakirev's 1st Symphony, of which I've scanned the 1st two movements so far.