Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>IIRC - and that's increasingly not always the case - Toscanini was
>rehearsing the Schubert Unfinished without a score in Vienna and chided a
>player for a wrong note.  The player insisted he'd played what was written,
>AT said the score was wrong.  Someone realised the original was in the very
>building in which they were rehearsing, it was checked and AT was found to
>be right.
>
>If this is apocryphal, inaccurate or both, I'm sure someone will put me
>right.

I'll leave it for someone else to refute or corroborate and offer instead
a tale of my own, which I suspect *is* apocryphal.

A pompouus and generally unpleasant guest conductor, seeking to intimidate
his host orchestra, secretly changed a note in the part of one of the wind
players and when rehearsing the passage containing it, stopped the playing
and chided the player for his "mistake".  The player replied, "Some dummy
wrote an Eb for an E in my score [if this is an unlikely change, substitute
a more likely one] but I knew the part and played the E natural."

Walter Meyer