Winterreise (was: Feedback for starting a crowd funding campaign)

[Urs Liska]

Am 05.03.2014 19:38, schrieb Paul Morris:
> Hi Urs,
> You might take a look at these as examples, if you haven't already:
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/opengoldberg/open-goldberg-variations-setting-bach-free
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/opengoldberg/open-well-tempered-clavier-bah-to-bach
>
> Best of luck with it!
> -Paul

The fundamental difference here is that practically everybody knows who 
Bach is and what he stands for, and there are uncountable numbers of 
people caring about his music and potentially interested in a crowd 
funding campaign on that basis.
I don't have any illusions about the interest a certain Oskar Fried will 
raise by himself, so I hope we can make it interesting from the 
"project" perspective.

But while we're at it I had an idea about a project that could become 
similar to the Bach projects: We could try to prepare a crowd funded 
edition of Schubert's "Winterreise".

This is not only something pulled out of the corner because it's a 
prominent piece. There really _are_ significant aspects that can be 
added to the existing editions. I don't have the time to go into detail 
here, but I have invested significant amounts of time on it in the 
context of my doctoral thesis, and there _are_ unresolved questions, 
regarding original keys, and at least in one case regarding the issue in 
which way the shorthand notation of articulations in the manuscript of 
"Letzte Hoffnung" should  be expanded.

Creating a free edition of the "Winterreise" that takes such questions 
into account and makes it possible to generate individual transpositions 
would be similar as a contribution to the mentioned Bach projects.

Adding a recording to that would be nice bonus, but no requirement. 
Could actually be a second-level target (i.e. if a given amount of extra 
money is collected). I'm quite positive that I could get a prominent 
singer to do this.

I'd be really interested in such a project, but I have to say that I 
could only really consider it if it is sufficiently crowdfunded 
beforehand. And I think it would be expensive.

Best
Urs

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Urs Liska
www.openlilylib.org