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Review
Book and sheet music review: Beethoven String Quartet op.131

2021-11-17T12:03:00Z

Robin Stowell reviews both a new Bärenreiter urtext edition of the work, and a book-length commentary on the piece by Nancy November
Review
Book review: Complete Method for the Double Bass/String Quartet op. 2 (Giovanni Bottesini)

2021-04-27T20:48:00Z

Leon Bosch reviews the first two publications in a project to create urtexts of all the Italian composer’s works
Article
Urtext editions - friend or foe?

2020-01-13T13:41:00Z

Are urtext editions the only legitimate way to access the composer’s musical intentions? Do edited editions inevitably distort the authentic creative voice?

All Urtext articles

Book and sheet music review: Beethoven String Quartet op.131

Book review: Complete Method for the Double Bass/String Quartet op. 2 (Giovanni Bottesini)

Urtext editions - friend or foe?