On 17 Feb 2006 at 1:19, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 16.02.2006 Andrew Stiller wrote: > > The Baroque ensemble Tempesta di Mare has made a name for itself in > > part through its performances and recordings of reconstructed lute > > concertos by Sylvius Leopold Weiss--concertos for which only the > > lute part actually survives. The entire orchestral part had to be > > recreated. The resulting pieces sound very convincing and realistic, > > and are credited to Weiss, but I can't help but thinking, each time > > I hear one of them, that if Handel had done the exact same > > thing--taken a Weiss lute part and added new orchestral > > accompaniments--that we would not hesitate a moment to > > ascribe the resulting work to Handel, not Weiss. Your thoughts? > > Incidentally, the extremely popular disc of Heinichen concerti with > Musica Antiqua Cologne is the exact same situation (for the same > reasons), where Reinhard Goebel "reconstructed" the orchestral parts, > and some argue that it is more in the style of Reinhard Goebel than in > the style of Heinichen. I am sure Goebel got a good royalty > compensation for it...;-)
As he should have. Do you really think that the argument against Sawkins has been an argument against royalties for all editions, no matter the degree of original work included in them? -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
