Edition zwischen Komponist und Verleger

This volume deals with the relationship between composers and publishers and the consequences for the edition of musical works.
Above all, it deals with the processes between the first transcription and the publication of a work, i.e. the work of copyists and engravers, of editors and publishers. Their collaboration with composers and the significance for the printed form of musical works is increasingly included in textual criticism in more recent scholarly editions. It is not always easy to decide to what extent the processes were authorized by the composer, considered unimportant by him or even carried out against his intentions – for written records of these work processes are rarely preserved.
Nine authors use examples from Joseph Haydn, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, Richard Strauss and Hans Zender, to examine whether these were common, typical processes, whether they were historical or specific to the composer in question.