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Ahahah! I didn't know that but I can definitely imagine him really doing that!

Wow, John!
This is amazing!

Thank you for this great analysis, and congratulations!

Ah ok! Great!
I thought the autograph (A) was the first version, with two copies of it as C1 and C2.
Thank you for clarifying!

I played a bit with the website and it is indeed amazing. I will purchase the Henle version, then, since I believe none of the sources on the website include the second version. Now, if that version was discovered in 1962 and somehow registered, it would still be under copyright. But is it still a c...

I would certainly not protest to MichelRE option were I to find it on my stand!

Thank you John! If I understood correctly, you would suggest following a good modern edition which has fewer accidentals. Sadly Wiener Urtext is not available digitally and I can't find it on nkoda. Shipping would cost more than the edition itself at the moment. I was not aware of the existence of t...

The second diamond (G) is not necessary and could puzzle some players as they may be induced to play the G on the D string, even just accidentally.

Dear all, I have been tasked with re-engraving Chopin's most famous Impromptu in C# minor, Op. 66 (actually posthumous). After completing the note-copying I couldn't help but notice something: every published edition I could find uses very few cautionary accidentals compared to what Dorico does with...

I actually like the new convention proposed by Gould where every natural harmonic between the nut and the half of the string (excluded) should be written with a diamond notehead and nothing else, meaning to touch that exact point on the string without any other interference. As MichelRE said, the D4...

There is a nice joke about the cello and Verdi.
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