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As the idea for the Scores of Beauty Engraving Challenges arose from engraving complex late-romantic piano music it seemed natural to start with such a challenge. We found something which we found ideal: Leopold Godowsky's arrangements of Schubert songs, a music that is flourishing with wonderful polyphonic additions and inventions - and an engraver's nightmare ;-) The issue is that - although Godowsky died more than 70 years ago, giving his music to the public domain in most countries - these pieces have been published in the U.S. less than 90 years ago ...
After some pondering I recalled the five volumes of Godowksy's "Studies on Chopin's studies"
that I own but (as a pianist) never dared to touch so far. These pieces have been published
in Germany, so they are actually free to use (because there isn't such a long time protection
regarding the publication date in the EU).
Surprisingly, most of them are quite simple notation-wise, but I think I found one nice example
that would be a challenging task: a page from the study on Chopin's study in a minor op. 25/11.
You'll find it in the PNG file in this directory.
As this doesn't contain a title please also refer to chopin-godowsky-title.
- paper size is 230x299 mm,
- line-width is 188 mm; 24 mm for the left margin and 18 mm for the right,
- staves are about 7 mm high (~20 pt).
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