It all depends on how personally invested you are in Froberger's music. If
he's "one of your guys" then go for it, because you'll want all modern
editions -- and will actually need them side by side, along with some other
sources such as Roberday, Bauyn III, and the Hintze MS, etc... None of the
modern editions is adequate because they all take different approaches.
The major problem is the emergence in recent years of several really
important new Froberger sources.
-- The traditional sources (the Vienna MSS and the earliest printed
editions) were published by Garland many years ago; they are available in
most university libraries and are mostly online also.
-- Other new sources are also now available in facsimile. And others are on
IMSLP.
-- But the newest source (sold at auction in London in 2006) is an
autograph MS that contains many otherwise unknown pieces that are still
unpublished in either modern edition or facsimile. The MS is kept strictly
in private ownership (currently in Paris) . A good summary of it was made
by Bob van Asperen:
http://sscm-jscm.org/jscm/v13/no1/vanasperen.html
No single modern edition can really be satisfying until everything is
available. But even then, Froberger (even more so than Chambonnières) may
well be a classic case of a composer for whom no single standard scholarly
edition will ever be satisfactory, given all the variables and all the
variants in different sources that have compelling but different validity.
In my opinion, the Bärenreiter edition, while trying to be a "variorum"
edition that gives variants, tended to fall short of even that limited
target -- and that was before the recent discovery of the additional
sources. But of course, anyone really interested in Froberger must have it.
And the prefaces about Froberger himself are essential reading.
Best wishes,
DM
*Davitt MoroneyProfessor of Music; University OrganistDirector, University
Baroque Ensemble*
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 7:21 PM, David Cates <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I was looking at the Rampe edition of Froberger, wondering whether I
> should take the plunge; there are 8 volumes in total, quite a challenge for
> the bookshelf.
> To anyone familiar with this edition, is there any significant overlap
> among the volumes, or do you really "need" to spring for the whole set??
> Thanks
> David
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