Baerenreiter Verlag Symphony no. 9 in D minor op. 125, Finale - Beethoven/Del Mar - Vocal Score - Book

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Librettist: Friedrich von Schiller
Editor: Jonathan Del Mar
Arranger: Eike Wernhard
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Version: Vocal Score

Between 1996 and 2000 Baerenreiter published scholarly-critical editions of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies edited by the first class musicologist Jonathan Del Mar. The editorial process was a huge undertaking because of the complex source situation regarding Beethoven's Symphonies culminating in the Choral Symphony which came down to us in nearly 20 different sources. So it was not surprising that Baerenreiter's new Urtext edition caused a considerable stir in the music world.

Since publication, Del Mar's edition enjoys the unabashed praise of conductors, performers and critics alike and has become the most widely used publication of the Beethoven Symphonies which can be heard not only every day in concert halls, but also on CD recordings by John Eliot Gardiner, David Zinman, Jos van Immerseel and Claudio Abbado.