RVW Tuba Concerto Errata

[Jeff Anderson]

I took my Eulenburg score many years ago and added the markings from my copy of the rental score. The editing of the tuba part in the Eulenburg part is nearly Identical to the year after year OUP edition, and has little similarity to the rental score manuscript. In fact the Eulenburg score states it's "published by arrangement with Oxford University Press".
The Eulenburg Edition has two components to the edition. A Preface that is copyright 1982 with Eulenburg, and the music that is still copyright OUP 1979. The Preface consists of notes on the concerto by Michael Kennedy in 1981, also translated into German, and a performance note of the 1st movement cadenza stating it is from the original manuscript and the view of Philip Catelinet and Roy Douglas that RVW would have preferred this version.
The only problem is the Eulenburg edition included is very different from the rental score manuscript and seemingly identical to what OUP Press has always printed. The rental manuscript has different phrasing in the cadenza as well one Ab. The Eulenburg has the OUP two Ab and OUP phrasing. I use my copy of the manuscript rental score as my guide to the piece.
Whether the "original manuscript" score that is referred to is the same as the rental part manuscript score, I don't know, but if Douglass did the editions for the Eulenburg score, they're the same as OUP.

Jeff Anderson
San Francisco Symphony

[CC]

From the Rental Score...

[Jeff Anderson]

Always nice to see a score marked "start conducting".

[sloan]

What a lovely Elephant!