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Andrew Bernard <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:03:34 +1000
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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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