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Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:24:45 -0500
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Walter asks me:

>>Whatever you do, please note the edition the performers use.  Horowitz,
>>for example, used his own, and unfortunately it has only a little to do
>>with Mussorgsky.  In essence, it's an "orchestration" *for* piano.  ...
>
>You mean actual changes and/or additions to the notes? Or to how they are
>played, i.e., fingering, tempi, dynamics?

Changes and additions.  Horowitz, for example, seems to base *his* Pictures
on the Ravel orchestration.

Steve Schwartz

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