Thanks very much, Davitt!  That's a good endorsement, and thanks for sharing your knowledge about them. The original sources, especially the ones in full color scans online, with all their bizarre and beautiful calligraphy, are lovely. Hopefully the MS in private hands will in the not too distant future be reproduced at least. 
I subscribe to the principle that one can never have too much Froberger, it's such fascinating music. The polyphonic organ pieces are not often played by harpsichordists, which is a shame because they can work very well; but like the rest of his music they need a little insight and coaxing to yield their beauties.
OK, I sprung for the set. That'll be a few weeks of playing through. 
David

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> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:06:25 -0800
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> Subject: Re: Froberger Baerenreiter edition
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> 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 unpublished in either modern edition or facsimile.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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