A bibliographical imbroglio: Books 1 and 2 of Couperin’s Pièces de clavecin

Autor: Denis Herlin
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Early Music. 48:319-334
ISSN: 1741-7260
0306-1078
DOI: 10.1093/em/caaa050
Popis: During the preparation of a new critical edition of Couperin’s keyboard music for Bärenreiter (Book 1, 2016; Book 2, 2018), I examined 72 exemplars of the first book and 52 of the second, listed variously in RISM and in French regional library catalogues. This large number of surviving exemplars is testimony to the exceptionally wide diffusion of these publications and also their remarkable influence, even though Couperin’s music was never taken up by publishers outside France. Careful collation of these exemplars has allowed the identification of no fewer than 16 impressions of Book 1 and 15 impressions of Book 2. The existence of so many variant versions of the two books raises questions about the nature of the corrections made at various times by the composer himself; about the process by which these volumes were assembled prior to sale; and, more broadly, about how the retailing of sheet music was organized.
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