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From: chenr@tilt.UUCP (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: Editions of piano music
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Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 18:46:55 EDT
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Schirmers are *definitely* over-edited, poorly edited (fingerings
that many times are simply bad, dynamic markings that are wrong, 
and sometimes notes that are off), and basically hacked up, but when
it comes to exercize books, they're not bad.  In every technique
book I've used by Schirmer (Hanon, Pischna, Brahms, etc.), they've
left everything as marked by the composer.

For normal music, though, I prefer Paderweski or Henle-Verlag for
Chopin, Henle-Verlag or Dover for Beethoven Sonatas, and as for the
rest, I look around.  You're pretty safe, though, if you check and
make sure that the editor has taken things from the original text
and that deviations from the original text have been marked.

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