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Have you compared the typesetting to several of Simrock's c.1890-1900 scores to check they were the first publisher? Simrock might have reprinted something originally published by someone else. You might be able to check the typesetting of several of the firms Popper's music was published by; Hofmei...

Bump: http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Community_Projects/Neue_Mozart_Ausgabe I have updated the NMA project page over the last day marking volumes in bold black and red colours to indicate their current status. Basically, if the volume number is bolded, it is entirely permissible to include at IMSLP; th...

Hi Yagan, perhaps you should listen to Les Troyens or Benvenuto Cellini before reciting the clichéd academic prejudice against Berlioz as you just did. Berlioz is still performed so sparingly (aside from some overtures and the Symphonie fantastique , which though an astonishing work for a 27-year ol...

Carolus!

(thinks... Kalmus probably = C/V/C most of the time...)

Yes, I suppose you're right about that... I hadn't thought of it that way, really! Hmm!... Thanks PML

First. Almost all of Victoria's works were published by the composer in his own lifetime (there are only about a dozen, extremely minor works not in this category). Thus there are no copyright issues regarding the date of first publication as the composer died in 1611. (Victoria is fairly unusual in...

Bump.

This is just to move this thread to the top of the pile again, since I am still unconvinced there are not copyvio issues with Soler. (i.e. there is an issue to be resolved. Sorry for that double negative!)

PML :)

In a nutshell, the difference is: Checked: we think we know the copyright status, so with reasonable certainty, we think it is in the public domain; Verified: with reasonable confidence, we know the copyright status, and the work is in the public domain. There are a lot of possible variables at work...

To be fair to the original poster, his example was Vivaldi, and the vast majority of the Red Priest's work has been published up to now, in Vivaldi's own lifetime from about 1710 onward in some cases, to the editions from the mid 20th C up to the present in the new critical edition by Ricordi. In th...

Hi Horndude, Carolus, I noticed the horn quintet was a Lilypond typeset so rushed over to Mutopia on suspicion I would find it there; sure enough I found the maintainer to be someone with a horndude-ish gmail address, so I assumed that there would be no huge objection to its presence here at IMSLP, ...

Bump. I notice the harpsichord sonatas and concertos by Antonio Soler are still in the stack of 1000-odd copyright review items, a year on from the post by Feldmahler above. What was the outcome of writing to Ray Izumi? (chateaugris.com) To my knowledge, very few of the ~100+ sonatas were ever publi...

Many of Roussel's works were first published after 1923, so they fall foul of the US' 95 year copyright. A quick sampling of some of the works showed most of the copyright tags that imposed a block were because of non-PD status in the US - regards, Philip

Perhaps because no one had identified it as one of Chrysander's typesets? (c. 1858)

Perhaps because it has a very prominent logo for sheetmusicfox.com?

Nonetheless it is PD and has now been verified - regards, Philip

Unfortunately the previous poster's comment isn't a complete summary of the issues! The work of Obrecht is definitely public domain by now, however, in being transcribed from Renaissance white mensural notation into modern notation, the modern score is almost certain to include the work of an editor...

Lyle, as Kalmus/Belwin Mills is principally a reprint publisher, I strongly doubt that they produced the edition in the first place, and so the copyright status is possibly favourable in the US, at the least. The editorial contribution would thus be the most important information in assessing its su...

For what it's worth, I too have been impressed with this clever implementation; although imperfect, the fact that it finds quite relevant recordings to match works is very helpful, for those who have an interest. For really unusual repertoire it's actually quite useful to be made aware of recordings...