Joel Lazar wrote:

>There are also questionable or outright wrong notes both in score and
>parts throughout.

I'm very interested in this, as I have just done Pelleas and was amazed at
the amount of unclear issues regarding articulation, expression marks and
complete differences between the piano score and the two versions I had
available of the orchestral score.  Isn't it disturbing to think that a
major work by a major composer can still be circulating in a state that
forces performers to make arbitrary decisions almost a hudred years after
it was composed? Scolars where are you??? Surely someone must have made an
in-depth study about the textual problems.  Then why are publishing houses
so slow in integrating these with the costly rent material they provide?

A similar case is Strauss' 'Ariadne auf Naxos'.  I was assistant for Zubin
Mehta a couple of years ago in Florence and we had brand new material, so
half the time in rehearsal was spent on correcting mistakes in the parts,
and even in the full score.  Is publishing houses ever considering a refund
for this costly way of completing their job?

Arnold Bosman