Talk:Symphonie fantastique, H 48 (Berlioz, Hector)

Free public domain sheet music from IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library

I should point out that the Weingartner edition is very unreliable as a guide to the composer's intentions. My impression is that it was edited to suit the style and performance practice in vogue in Austria and Germany at that time. I hope that somehow we could see the Schlesinger original, but presumably not the most recent issue in the collected works. When I have time I shall post here the results of my own researches.

The scores differ in parts...

The two orchestral scores here are probably NOT completely from the same plate. cf. the bass trombone and tuba I parts at rehearsal mark 53 (pdf page 79 in both pdfs). the kalmus reprint conforms to current playing practice where the bass trombone has pedal B-flats and the tuba alternating octaves. regards, sb