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A Catalogue of the Compositions of Frederick Delius. Sources and References by Robert Threlfall Review by: Nick Chadwick Fontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1979 Januar-März), pp. 66-67 Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23505309 . Accessed: 16/06/2014 18:01 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Fontes Artis Musicae. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 185.2.32.121 on Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:01:39 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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A Catalogue of the Compositions of Frederick Delius. Sources and References by RobertThrelfallReview by: Nick ChadwickFontes Artis Musicae, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1979 Januar-März), pp. 66-67Published by: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres(IAML)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23505309 .

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6 6 Comptes-Rendus/Besprechungen/Reviews

Ein anderer Fall: Nach Eintritt des Sohnes

Esaias Daniel in die Firma - 1787 entsprechend der Inhabertabelle - firmieren laut „Biblio

braphie" bis 1830 in lateinischen Titeln , Johann

Jacob Lotter & Filii", daneben in deutschsprachi gen „Johann Jacob Lotter und Sohn" (wobei

offenbleibt, ob es sich in letzterem Fall um Ver

lagsartikel oder Druckaufträge handelt, denn an

anderer Stelle [Nr. 364] wird ausdrücklich mit

der Formulierung „Gedruckt und verlegt von Jo hann Jacob Lotter und Sohn" operiert). Beide

Firmennamen gelten also der „Bibliographie" zu

folge über den Tod Johann Jacobs d.J. (1804) und über den des Esaias Daniel (1820) hinaus. Mit gutem Grund hält der nun absteigende Ast des Verlagshauses an dem renommierten Firmen

namen fest, auch noch der familienfremde Joseph Carl Jasper, unter der Version „Lotter und Sohn.

J.C. Jasper". Entgegen den oben genannten Im

pressa zitiert jedoch Rheinfurth aus dem Augs burger Adressbuch von 1826, daß Esaias Daniels Witwe den Verlag unter der Bezeichnung „Lotter, Elias (soll heissen Esaias) Wittwe" weitergeführt hat (S. 23). Auch diese Diskrepanz hätte der Au tor erwähnen sollen, um zu zeigen, daß den Fir

menbezeichnungen in Adressbüchern u.ä. kein

Quellenwert im handelsrechtlichen Sinn zu kommt. Im Fall des von ihm glaubhaft abgelehn ten Elias Daniel Lotter würde es übrigens den Le ser trotzdem interessieren, auf welcher Quelle Ursula Schmidts Behauptung fußt, wonach Elias der Enkel Johann Jacobs d.J. sein soll; denn es macht immerhin stutzig, daß sein Name in den Adressbüchern noch nach dem Tod des Esaias Daniel (1820) 1826 unter „Lotter, Elias Wittwe" und 1827—1835 unter „Lotter, Elias Erben" auftaucht.

Der abschließende vierte Abschnitt enthält das

„alphabetische Register der Komponisten mit An

führung ihrer Werke", irritierenderweise aber nur im Unterabschnitt c, unter a und b die Anonyma und Sammeldrucke - besser Sammelwerke - in

chronologischer Folge. Verzeichnisse der benutz ten Literatur und der Abbildungen, bei denen die

Angabe der Titelnumerierung wegen der Nachbar schaft der Titel nützlicher gewesen wäre als der

Umweg über das Verzeichnis der Abbildungen, runden die sehr gewissenhaft durchgeführte Ar beit ab.

Am Rande sei noch auf folgende Details hin

gewiesen: S. 25 fehlt unter den aufgeführten

Lithographien Nr. 497; S. 57 steht das Handbuch der musikalischen Literatur unter Hofmeister, S.

334 unter Whistling. Dementsprechend fehlt im

Register für Hofmeister (S. 337) und Whistling (S. 341) die Seitenzahl 334. Einordnung unter den Sachtitel wäre das Gegebene gewesen. Übri

gens wirkt sich auch hier die Trennung der Musik

bibliographien (S. 57/8 vom „Verzeichnis der be nutzten Literatur" (S. 331 ff.) nachteilig aus; S.

80, Nr. 33 fehlt wohl der Hinweis auf entspre chende Verzeichnisse bzw. Kataloge? ; S. 82, Nr.

39 Oswald, Andreas (Richter) lt. RISM A/I/6, S.

351. Dito S. 46, 48, 320; S. 97, Nr. 67 FESTI

VAE, SVAVESQVE statt SVA VESQVE; S. 181, Nr. 243 um Verwechslungen vorzubeugen, bes ser Freiburg i.Br.; S. 274/5, Nr. 461/3 „litho

graphiert", da hier kein Zitat vorüegt; S. 306

Groll, Evermodus, OPraem statt OPream; S. 332 Mendels Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon er schien 1870 (statt 1872)—1883. Der nicht er wähnte August Reissmann bearbeitete die Buch staben N-Z.

Alles in allem hat Rheinfurth ein aufschluß reiches und gut zu handhabendes Arbeitsinstru ment vorgelegt, das anhand von 533 Verlagsarti keln (- Artaria brachte es 1776-1785 auf mehr als tausend Verlagsnummern!) Druckerzeugnissen und wohl auch Handelsobjekten Einblick in das Wirken einer Verlegerfamilie gibt, die er mit

Layer als „über ein Jahrhundert lang" führend

„auf dem süddeutschen Buchmarkt im Musika lienhandel" (S. 39) bewertet. Dieses pauschale Urteil sowie Layers Feststellung „was Breitkopf für den Norden, war Lotter für den Süden" (S. 8) würde ich insofern spezifizieren, als zweifellos die Lotters auf dem deutschen Musikalienmarkt die

rührigsten Geschäftsleute mit einzigartiger Werbe

praxis waren, bis Anfang der 1760er Jahre die

Breitkopfs mit einem alle musikalischen Sparten umfassenden Angebot die Initiative ergriffen. Bei beiden Firmen basierte der Erfolg auf der Fami lientradition und auf der glücklichen Verschmel

zung von Druckereibetrieb, Buch- und Musika lienhandel sowie Buch- und Musikverlag. Auf letz teren hat sich Rheinfurth seiner Absicht gemäß konzentriert.

Liesbeth Weinhold Liesbeth Weinhold

Robert T h r e 1 f a 11: A Catalogue of the

Compositions of Frederick Delius. Sources and

References. (London: Delius Trust, 1977). "The aim of the present volume ... is ... to

list all of Delius's compositions, in all their edi tions and versions, published or unpublished, in such a way as to render the resulting corpus of information immediately accessible to the user of this book." So states Robert Threlfall in his introduction: that he has succeeded brilliantly in his task will be evident to anyone who has cause to use this beautifully produced volume, the pre paration of which was clearly a labour of love for

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its author. Delius is not a composer we usually associate with "exact" scholarship - his music

appeals to the heart rather than to the head; but Robert Threlfall's book is both scholarly in a most precise manner as well as readable. No stone is left unturned: not only are the manuscripts and various editions listed with exemplary thoroughness and clarity but, in the case of the vocal works, the sources of both the original words and the translations used by Delius are

thoroughly investigated. Particularly fine examples of the author's

thoroughness are the concordance of the original text, Basil Dean's acting edition, the first musical

score, and the 'new and complete edition' of

Hassan-, also the discussions on the dating and on the problem of the original language of Delius's

early settings of Norwegian poets. The catalogue is liberally illustrated with

plates, mostly facsimiles of early versions of pub lished works or of pages from unpublished works. It only remains to commend this catalogue to all lovers of Delius's music and to all music librar

ians. No music library of any importance should be without it.

Nick Chadwick Nick Chadwick

Emil Vogel - Alfred Einstein,

François Lesure - Claudio Sar

tori: Bibliografîa delta musica italiana vocale

profana pubblicata dal 1500 al 1700. (Pomezia: Staderini-Minkoff, 1977). 3 vols.

The "New Vogel" (Nuovo Vogel), as editors

Lesure and Sartori call it and as it undoubtedly will enter the musicological argot, is a "new, fully revised and enlarged edition

" (from subtitle) with

supplementary indices. Scholars have awaited it with bated breath, and with good reason: it

updates and upgrades the "old" Vogel, hence

permits the exercise of a finer control over the

vast and sprawling repertory of Italian secular

vocal music of the 16th-17th centuries. As such

it ranks, along with the various enterprises of

RISM or of individual compilers (Sartori, Brown,

etc.), as one of the stunning bibliographical achievements of our era.

Emil Vogel published his two-volume Biblio

thek der gedruckten weltlichen Vocalmusik

Italiens aus den Jahren 1500-1700 in Berlin,

1892, and it has served as the cornerstone of

research in the area ever since. The Bibliothek

resulted from the labors of a single man, who, in

his own words, "did not spare himself efforts or

discomforts, roaming from country to country to

explore in person all public and private collec

tions, to the extent they were accessible to him"

(I, viii-ix). In his wanderings over a period of some eight years he compiled an inventory of almost 4,000 collections - the larger part by single composers, the rest anthologies - in 130

European libraries. He envisaged the Bibliothek as contributing to our knowledge of the history of music, the history of printing, the history of Italian literature and, whenever information about patrons of note could be gleaned from the

prefaces of works, to our knowledge of general history. Time has shown that this was no empty boast. Einstein wrote, in 1945, that "in the course of preparing a work on the Italian madri

gal and its related forms, [Vogel's Biblio

thek] has served me as an indispensable biblio

graphical foundation. Again and again, I have come to realize how excellently it is fashioned, how solid is its plan.

"

Yet the ravages of age left their mark on the Bibliothek-, it failed to account for many hun

dreds of collections unavailable or unknown to

Vogel; it has become increasingly inaccurate in its

specification of existing copies and their where

abouts, many of which were destroyed, lost or relocated in the upheaval of two World Wars. Ein stein undertook a work of revision and, before his death in 1952, managed to publish a re

vamped version of Part II of Vogel, that is, the

chronological inventory of anthologies.1 It was here that Lesure and Sartori took over, using as basic tools, at the outset, Vogel's own corrected

copy of his Bibliothek (he appears to have had a new edition in mind) and the heavily annotated set owned by Einstein, which explains why the name of Einstein figures prominently among the authors of the New Vogel. They made an early decision, however, to limit their bibliography to

composers' collections only, and for sound reasons: though in need of its own revision, the

Vogel-Einstein listing of anthologies has main tained itself as a basic source of reference; the work of revision has already been accomplished in part by the Liste chronologique of the Recueils imprimés XVIe-XVIIe siècles that Lesure prepared as the first volume of RISM

Series B (1960); and the Liste chronologique is slated to be completed by a companion volume, now in preparation, that will specify the contents of these collections. To the annotations of Vogel

1 It first appeared in Vols. II-V (1945—48) of

Notes, and was later incorporated as "Nachträge und Ergänzungen von Alfred Einstein" in the

reprint of Vogel by Georg Olms, Hildesheim, 1962 (II, 599-832).

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