Re: New Production with LilyPond

[David Kastrup]

Aurélien Bello <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear all,
> I would like to inform about an exciting project I made with LilyPond.
> Every year, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra has its own Eastern
> Festival in Baden-Baden. They play one big opera and numerous
> symphonic concerts.
> This year, the opera will be "Der Rosenkavalier" of Richard Strauss.
> In addition and thanks to the very active education program of Sir
> Simon Rattle, they propose a children version of the big opera.
>
> I was appointed to arrange a short and reduced version of the Rosenkavalier. 

[...]

> All the scores have been made with LilyPond (Vocal score, Full score and 
> parts).

[...]

> Later this arrangement will be edited by Schott - unfortunately they
> can't / don't want to work with LilyPond and it seems they will make
> their own engraving.
> But the premiere will be played with the nice LilyPond scores!

What happens with your copyright for your LilyPond version?  Have you
signed it away?  Do you retain publishing rights for it?

Strauss died in 1949 so copyright of his heirs will stick around until
something like 2019 I think.  But if you were free to publish it
afterwards, that would be great.

-- 
David Kastrup