jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (05/01/84)
My prejudice against Schirmer editions comes from their Well-tempered Clavier - complete with pedal indications, dynamics, fingerings, tempo indications, the whole mess. (Hey, I'll bet you guys thought I didn't like Bach, huh? Sorry - ) This inspired one of my older brothers to change "Library of Musical Classics" to "Library of Classic Blunders", and to add the indications "Front" and "Back" to the score. (And I was very impressionable then.) I also seem to remember a Beethoven sonata with some rather high-handed and apparently unjustified "editing" done to the tune of "the Master certainly would have done such-and-such" - gag. On the plus side, while the Schirmer edition of the Chopin 3rd sonata disagrees with the Polish edition in several places, those are precisely the places where the Polish edition seems to have chosen between two equally justified alternatives (according to their own critical notes). (Note: most concert pianists today apparently use the Polish edition - now I know where all those "wrong" notes come from!) Jeff Winslow