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Re: OT: How to become a mutopia-writer


From: Matthias Kilian
Subject: Re: OT: How to become a mutopia-writer
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:58:41 +0100
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Hi,

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 06:09:17PM +0100, Roland Goretzki wrote:
> I want to typeset the studies op. 10 and op. 25 from F. Chopin with
> lilypond for the mutopia-project.
> 
> (And in the future, some Sonatas from Beethoven for piano, too.)
[...]
>     1. G. Henle
>     2. Schott
>     3. Wilhelm Hansen
[...]
> To get a legal typesetting I need
> 
>     1. An older Edition:

The *music* itself isn't copyrighted, since the composers died more
than 100 years ago. If your printouts don't claim a copyright, and/or
are underived work ("Urtext", i.e. reproductions of the autographs),
they contain no "creative additions" to the compose's work.

In other words: take an "Urtext" edition and lilypondize it. Henle is
a good candidate (they made a lot of "Urtext" editions).

If you've only "derived work" (dynamics, corrections, fingerings added
by the editor), you can try to remove those additions.  Or ask me; IIRC,
I've Henle's Urtext-Editions of all Beethoven sonatas and maybe of some
Chopin etudes.

Ciao,
        Kili




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