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Dmitri Shostakovich Tahiti-Trott (Tea for Two by Vincent Youmans), op. 16 Facsimile of the autograph score Edited by the Paul Sacher Foundation in honor of Hermann Danuser on his 60th birthday Hamburg: Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, 2006 In German and English, 30 × 39 cm, 71 pp. + 6 pp. supplement, clothbound in slipcase Sikorski Ed. No. 2402 ISMN M-003-03500-0 ISBN 3-935196-78-4 EUR 49.00 / CHF 75.00 (not available from Schott)
Like many other composers, Dmitri Shostakovich had a pronounced weak spot for the popular music of his day. His interest found expression not only in his ballet and film scores but notably in his orchestral arrangement of Tea for Two, the hit theater song by Vincent Youmans that has remained world-famous to the present day. Shostakovich probably encountered the song in a Russian version entitled Tahiti-Trott in 1926, when it was inserted into a stage play at the Meyerhold Theater. He orchestrated it under storied circumstances in 1927 and dedicated the manuscript to the conductor Nikolai Malko, who had proposed the transcription. In 1930, pressured by the proletarian realignment of Soviet cultural policy, Shostakovich was forced to distance himself from his arrangement, which was criticized as an expression of a «decadent westernized mentality».Thereafter it continued to circulate in the Soviet Union in a single set of parts that occasionally reached performance and was also used for two posthumous editions in 1984 and 2006. Yet the original manuscript, which remained among Malko's possessions when he emigrated to the West and entered the holdings of the Paul Sacher Foundation in 1989, has been ignored to the present day. Our volume presents it complete for the first time in print, supplemented by five brief explanatory essays and a reproduction of the 1926 Russian edition of Tahiti-Trott.
		Pierre Boulez Le Marteau sans maître Fac-similé du brouillon et de la première mise au net / Facsimile of the draft score and the first fair copy of the full score Edited by Pascal Decroupet 215 pp., 38.0 x 30.0 cm, clothbound in slipcase with an introduction in French and English, many annotated illustrations of sketches and documents, and musical examples ISBN 3-7957-0453-7 (PSB 1015) EUR 154.- / CHF 244.- (Series subscription price EUR 129.- / CHF 204.-)
Ever since its première in Baden-Baden fifty years ago, Le Marteau sans maître has been considered one of the towering masterpieces of the post-war serialist avantgarde. Now, in honor of Pierre Boulez on his eightieth birthday, the Paul Sacher Foundation is issuing this facsimile volume with a large amount of handwritten material in high-quality color reproductions. Among the items reproduced are the pencil sketch, the first fair copy in ink, and selected sketches and drafts. These sources are accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations, providing a fascinating glimpse into the workshop of the then thirty-year-old composer.
Béla Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Facsimile of the autograph score and sketches Edited by Felix Meyer, 2000 148 pp. with an accompanying booklet of 32 pp. 30.5 x 39.5 cm ISBN 3-7957-0399-2 (PSB 1010) EUR 154.- / CHF 244.- (Series subscription price EUR 131.- / CHF 222.-)
Commissioned by Paul Sacher, «Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta» is among the undisputed masterpieces of twentieth-century music. Bartók committed the piece to paper over a short period of time in summer 1936. Departing from his normal habits, he drafted the piece directly in full score, which he then reworked several times and finally handed to the publishers as a production master. This important source appears here for the first time in facsimile, accompanied by an introduction in German and English and by annotated documents on the work's genesis, publication, première, and reception. Rounding off the volume is a separate booklet with rejected drafts, pages of sketches, and the original form of pages which were later pasted over.
		Igor Stravinsky Trois pièces pour quatuor à cordes Sketches, versions, documents, essays Edited by Hermann Danuser with the assistance of Felix Meyer and Ulrich Mosch, 1994 174 pp., 25 x 38 cm ISBN 3-7957-0398-0 (PSB 1009) EUR 154.- / CHF 244.- (Series subscription price EUR 131.- / CHF 222.-)
Stravinsky's «Three Pieces for String Quartet» has only appeared in print in its second version of 1918 and in an arrangement of 1928-29 for the «Four Etudes for Orchestra». The first version, dating from 1914, was left unpublished, as was the reduction for piano four-hands of the same year. This volume makes both accessible for the first time, along with all known sketches and a collection of seven essays.
Igor Stravinsky Symphonies d'instruments à vent Facsimile edition of short score and full score of first version (1920) Edited by André Baltensperger and Felix Meyer, 1991 84 pp., 25 x 38 cm ISBN 3-7957-0397-2 (PSB 1008) EUR 128.- / CHF 203.- (Series subscription price EUR 109.- / CHF 184.-)
The «Symphonies for Wind Instruments», a key work in Stravinsky's oeuvre, is best known in the revised version that the composer prepared in 1947. For a long time the more richly colored original version of 1920 remained unpublished. This volume makes the most important autograph sources available to a wider public. It contains faithful reproductions of the composer's fair copy of the full score, finished in November 1920, and the short score of summer 1920, a working manuscript that sheds revealing light on Stravinsky's creative process.