At 10:06 PM +0100 11/6/10, Florence + Michael wrote:
Of course Gounod isn't a recent composer, but that edition is recent and certainly not a reprint of an earlier edition. It was completely new in 1972, edited by Fritz Oeser who put back passages that Gounod had cut before the premiere. According to Gérard Condé in his book on Gounod (Fayard 2009), Oeser even changed things to suit his own taste, for example taking a chorus from the third scene of the last act and inserting it into the first scene of that act.
In that case you're absolutely right: it's weird! By 1972 both the NBA and the NMA were well under way, both using modern clefs. Must have been an editor's choice, or a publisher's choice.
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