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John Field, sonata 2, 3, and 4
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:34 pm
by sfd1971
I have arranged John Field's first sonata for orchestra. I want to arrange his other sonatas (2, 3, and 4), but the only sheet music I can find of those pieces are "urtext, non-pd us" versions. I have to admit, I am not 100% sure what that means. How much different are they from the original? Why are they not in public domain?
Re: John Field, sonata 2, 3, and 4
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:49 am
by Eric
may I interject with some alternatives? I'm fairly sure that the other sonatas were published -somewhere- else in the 19th century... the Anna Amalia Bibliothek has a Kühnel publication (ca.1810) of no.2 (not digitized at this time but maybe they will?), no.3 in C minor is @
these libraries e.g., ...
now Peters published all 4 sonatas in 1830 (I think Kühnel published them in the 1810s) - see
HMB - so hopefully some copy of one of the sonatas publications should be findable somewhere... may not have been digitized by anyone yet, but maybe a library near you has it and you can scan it or another publication of the sonatas (published before 1925 and so likely to be public-domain everywhere) and upload it to the site
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