Ekier edition

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A modern Internet platform presenting all the available sources of the works of Fryderyk Chopin. This application has been especially designed to enable browsing, analysing and comparing digitalized […]. The course is intended for pupils of secondary music schools who are older than 16 years of age and students and graduates of higher music schools.

The […]. Sunday, 13 September , p. Darmstadt — Chopin Gesellschaft Kennedy-Haus. Jan Ekier died in Warsaw on 15 August at the age of nearly years. The monograph devoted to the professor has become today the summary of his beautiful and full of achievements life.

This is the first […]. Between We owe Chopin a debt Not cheap but excellent print quality and editing Jan Ekier born August 29, is a Polish pianist and composer known for his authoritative edition of Chopin's music for the Polish National Edition.

Joined: Mar New York City. Come to think of it, I'm surprised there wasn't a thread here last year to celebrate Ekier's th birthday. Joined: Aug Land of the never-ending music. I have the Paderewski edition the original one, not the Dover edition. Music is my best friend. Henle looks the best by far. They hold up ok, not great if your going to be carting your books around everyday. Paderewski holds up very well, but they don't look nearly as good as the Henle. I compared a few collections side by side, and the Henle looked much better in every case.

Also, the Paderewskis tend to not stay open. The Alfred Masterworks look pretty good, and hold up very well. They're not as scholarly as the Henles. I think they're ok. I'm not sure if they're printed from identical plates as the Paderewski, I've never done a side by side comparison. Maybe some here can say Originally Posted by Miguel Rey.

Many teachers I've talked to recommend the Paderewski editions, but one teacher I really admire is a staunch supporter of the Mikuli edited Schirmer editions. Schirmer has 2 editions of Chopin - the Joseffy and the Mikuli. Since Carl Mikuli was a student of Chopin, it stands to reason that these editions would be of value. I actually have some Paderewskis and some Mikulis. I also have the Dover collection, which is based on the Mikuli edition. Originally Posted by ChopinAddict. Originally Posted by DanS.

I used to use some Paderewskis, but now I have the complete piano works of Chopin I think! Oh, my collection is not "complete". I bought 13 volumes on eBay for just 5 dollars, and the 14th volume at a book sale for 12 dollars, but there are a couple more volumes I will buy one day.

Joined: Nov Joined: Jun New York City! Jonathan Baker. I tend to favor Henle or Wiener editions, but I am not adamant about it - the valuable points for me are the editors notes on contradictions between first editions versus original manuscripts when they still exist. Cross referencing these sources helps me arrive at a reasoned or intuitive decision to resolve controversies about notes or ornaments in question.

If I am investing quality time in remastering a Chopin Ballade or Beethoven Sonata, I reference at least two editions, if not more. A cramped and jumbled late 19th century printing can waste my time by forcing me to squint and get a headache merely to decipher the crudely printed notes, so I always favor a clean and spacious printing.

Sometimes I photocopy the music and print it so that I have a 'working copy' that I feel free to scribble up with all manner of fingerings, notating chord progressions, structural highlights, my random ideas, circling this, pointing an arrow to that, and so forth - a kind of rough draft before zeroing in a more final product.

I am interested in picking up useful ideas about fingering from the editions of Rafael Joseffy, Arthur Friedheim, Alfred Cortot, and others, but I regard their additional dynamic and phrase markings with skepticism but not disrespect rather than take them at face value as I did as a teenager. Like a prudent juror I want to weigh all available evidence.

Paderewski, Mikuli I think Dover and Schirmer have some reprints available , and some of the Cortot are nice don't find much use in many of his exercises though.

Joseph Fleetwood. Chopin is a complicated subject, not least because different versions of his works were published in different countries, and sometimes these versions were sanctioned by Chopin, other times they were edited unscupulously by the publishing house. The new Peters edition makes an attempt to put that right, but I'm not entirely sure how it does it. The Jan Ekier edition does receive some high praise, but some people criticize it for being inaccurate in places, and making editorial decisions that are not listed as such, or placing alternative versions in the main score etc.

I don't know, I'm no scholar of editing. Likewise, the Paderewski edition is a useful performace edition, but bear in mind that it is Paderewski's opinion on Chopin, if you like. I don't think there's anything wrong with that per se, but it isn't regarded as the ultimate in urtext editing these days. It's still pretty much an indespensible guide for many pianists.

The Miluki edition is actually very popular because Miluki knew Chopin, and Chopin was said to have given his blessing to Miluki's work, in some cases Chopin proof-read the edited scores. Whether Chopin would give his blessing to the entire edition we can't be sure. I think it's important to use an edition that Chopin knew, as well as looking into other more 'urtext' editions.

At the end of the day, as a performer you have the ultimate choice of which version you play, which uncertain accidental you go for, which phrasing you choose. The pedaling in the Miluki edition is very good and very much of it's time. In today's world, people tend to go for legato pedaling as a rule, but not so in Miluki's edition, but then todays pianos damp more effectively and for that reason have less 'reverb' around the tone. The question of how you play on an individual piano is as important as which edition you use - in fact it could be more important.

The edition will give you a guide as to what you might want to try to achieve, but the piano and hall will dictate what you actually do. So, Paderewski, Miluki, Ekier, Peters? How about that for a selection? If I had to buy a complete edition of Chopin tomorrow, I'd probably buy Miluki and then refer to the others in a library. Agreed as to the selection but would opt for the one with best print quality with is why I chose Ekier.

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