Walton Violin Concerto Imslp Full Score To

Yes, Im sure it was technically published later, adding even more years onto the US copyright date (although nowhere near the record 200 years the engraved original version of Boris Godunov is currently enjoying).

It was a potentially rare alignment of the copyright planets.

Youre going to be out of luck for just about any composer born in the 20th century on this site, but the questions keep coming anyways.

Easy rule of thumb when calculating US copyright dates is to add 100, then subtract 4.

Walton Violin Concerto Imslp Full Score To

I think the first engraved full score to the original version of Boris was the Lloyd-Jones edition from 1974, which will be tied up in the USA until 2070 (assuming Disney doesnt pay to have the copyright term extended between now and then).

That score is already free in the EU, since the maximum term for an urtext edition is 30 years from publication.

OUP and Lloyd-Jones really cannot claim editio princeps here either, as the original version was actually published in full score (copyists manuscript - not engraved) by Muzgiz back in 1934 or so in Pavel Lamms amalgamated edition.

Mussorgsky finished his version in 1872, but it was never engraved during his lifetime, thanks to his friends.

While its now free just about everywhere else, in the greatest country in the world, its very much still under copyright.

The piece was finished in 1872, and it will enter the PD in the US in 2071.

Yes, technically a facsimile of the manuscript score is already PD, but a real engraving that looks decent gets almost 200 years of protection (admittedly half of that was while it sat in unpublished form, but that doesnt make it any less protected by copyright laws).

Only the US could figure out a way to give a piece 200 years of copyright protection.

Which of course benefits everyone but the childless composer.

If someone prepared a new scholarly edition based only on the manuscript, that would be fine.

Ive not seen any online references to this edition, so the account of its publication (which was told to me by a musicologist friend who specialized in Mussorgsky) might be anecdotal only.

Mussorgsky complete works issued jointly by Muzyka (now Jurgenson again) and Schott.

At any rate, Muzykas catalog was really quite enormous and they re-engraved things on apparent whim, so its not impossible by any means.

It also stands to reason that the folks in Moscow would be a bit miffed at being upstaged by OUP with a full score for such an important work by a native son.

So, if someone finds a Muzyka engraved full score of the original Boris dating from 1975 or thereabouts, we may have a candidate for a nice addition to IMSLP.

And mind you, these are very nice Editions in a Gorgious Green Hardbound cloth.

And very easily openable-leavable (hence the book doesnt flop shut on you).