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Is it possible that I could get a clarification on the New Berlioz Edition regarding its copyright and uploadability here? I might be able to add some of the volumes (and I notice a template is ready to go), but as the volumes are mostly recently published, I want to make sure before doing anything.

The information I can find for Miraculous Mandarin has a 1927 date, along with a probably bogus 1955 renewal date. Music S, P, E has a 1937 date only, while the two Violin Concertos should have dates around 1956 and 1937 respectively. Basically, just about all of Bartok is uploadable to IMSLP (excep...

There's a reason posterity has called all these composers geniuses. Posterity considers Schumann a terrible orchestrator. I didn't make that one up. A "genius" would probably not have difficulties orchestrating bland works, and a "genius" wouldn't ruin his performing career by &...

Really want the parts score of the firebird suite Yeah, I already complained about this. Orchestral Music Library really dropped the ball here, and neglected to include the parts to the 1919 suite, or the 1910 original, despite both being PD in the US, and despite the fact that they announced it wo...

Yes, the EU server has allowed a number of TB works to become available now. BKhon's post made it sound like anything copyright in the EU but not the US and Canada (a lot of Richard Strauss, for instance) is also TB'd, which isn't true.

Actually, that's not true. If it is in public domain in Canada, then we look to see if it is public domain in either the European Union or the US. If it's not, we block it as a courtesy to the publisher (so not just if it's non-PD in the US). Also, it's not pointless to list because it's a lot easi...

ScanTailor strikes again. Sorry about that. It's fixed now.

As for the triadic melody thing, why is that even necessarily a bad thing? What's the main theme to the first movement of the Eroica Symphony, after all? I'm well aware Beethoven did the same thing, but he did it well and memorably, and always with emotion. Brahms obviously tried to copy Beethoven ...

Brahms is all counterpoint, although his melodic and harmonic gifts are what elevate him Did I really just read this? Brahms was a terrible melody writer. He thought that writing melodies was taking parts of a major triad and stringing them together. He was apparently trying to copy Beethoven, but ...

Is there seriously a concert ending to the prelude? The actual ending is more than fine enough. In fact, I'd say it's one of my favorites. I guess most audiences won't realize a piece is over without a large and inappropriate V-I cadence. There's a similar one included with the Petrushka score; one ...

I highly doubt someone scanned St. Francois d'Assise, although the site classicscores.narod.ru was brought up, which does have a number of Messiaen scores (not including the opera). These would of course be illegal to download in most countries of the world (with Russia apparently not caring), and w...

We actually discussed this on the copyright board. Orchestral Music Library neglected to include the parts with their Nielsen set even though the piece is PD in the US. Perhaps they didn't because the piece was written after 1923, but as it's available from Kalmus, the copyright apparently was not r...

much less a copy of his opera St. Francis, which goes for many hundreds of dollars. Try thousands. A full copy of that from Boosey is going for $2,700, and that's the cheap version. I know it's a long opera, but it's only about 1450 pages of music or so. That could've been published in two or three...

If I was exaggerating, it was only by a year. Mussorgsky finished his version in 1872, but it was never engraved during his lifetime, thanks to his "friends". This finally happened in 1975. While it's now free just about everywhere else, in the greatest country in the world, it's very much...

A day after I post saying that the questions about composers born in the 20th century keep coming for some reason, here's another one. I wonder if someone is "testing" us to see if someone will actually post something like this. It's 2043 for Messiaen on this site, although Messiaen's late...