David Griegel replied (to a question from Deryk Barker about my challenge
to produce the dedication score of Bruckner's Third Symphony):

>Wagner's dedication score is kept at Bayreuth. Nowak used this score for
>his edition of the 1873 Third. This is not some mystical non-existent
>entity. It can be produced . . .

Excited last June by this revelation by Griegl, and by Deryk Barker's
earlier post that recorded versions of the dedication score existed by
Inbal and Norrington, I have been searching these many weeks for one or the
other of these recordings.  I finally found the Inbal at Orpheus in Boston,
rushed back down the Cape to play it, only to have my enthusiasm
considerably dimmed by what I read on the liner notes:

   "The first version of the Third Symphony has no individual autograph
    of its own:  the composer left other versions together with the
    alterations.  Thus the autograph of the second version consists of
    sheets of two kinds:  those with alterations that came from the
    first version, and those that were rewritten for the second version.
    Fortunately, the sheets bearing the first version have survived,
    enabling it to be reconstructed."

So what we have, instead of a pristine document, is a "reconstruction" after
layers of revision, so to speak, have been "peeled off" by the experts.

John Dalmas
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