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Dear Claudio,
The Henle edition is ruled out since it is full of piano fingerings by Hans-Martin Theopold. Well meaning though he may have been, it seems to me such a waste of time, and it spoils the look of the page terribly.
Of interest, though, from the Henle website:
Contact with Günter Henle was established directly after the
publishing house was founded, when Theopold thanked the publishers with
great enthusiasm for its first Urtext editions. His extensive
correspondence with the publishing house was bequeathed to the Lippische
Landesbibliothek in 2014 to ensure its long-term accessibility to the
public. The letters testify not only to Theopold’s great interest in
musical sources and text questions but also to his initial strict
refusal (!) of fingerings in text-critical editions such as these: “For
fingerings are and remain something individual no matter what their
quality” (letter to Günter Henle from 26 May 1949 {publishing house
archives}). Günter Henle was not, however, to be swayed and stressed the
necessity of fingerings in his Urtext editions: “It is better to
publish the Urtext […] with fingerings that are not necessary for a few
individuals, or that might even, I admit, be considered irritating here
and there” (letter to Hans-Martin Theopold of 17 September 1953).
http://www.henle.com/en/the-publishing-house/contributors/hans-martin-theopold.html
So now we know who to blame.
Andrew
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