Baerenreiter Verlag Fidelio op. 72 (Opera in two acts) - Beethoven/Luhning/Didion - Vocal Score - Book

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Ludwig van / Treitschke, Friedrich
Editors: Helga Luhning, Robert Didion
Piano Reduction: Hans-Georg Kluge
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Version: Vocal Score

The vocal score of Beethoven's Fidelio is based on the scholarly-critical edition of the full score prepared by Helga Luhning (Beethoven-Haus, Bonn) and the late Robert Didion. It is the first one to make use of all the major sources. The opera's extremely long gestation and complex genesis, with its three versions between 1804 and 1814 and its four overtures, shed light on the huge amount of editorial work required for this volume. The vocal score is accompanied by a complete historical-critical edition of the performance material. With this publication another towering masterpiece has been purged of nineteenth-century editorial emendations - with surprising timbral results.