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Franz Schubert. Klaviersonaten I. Vorgelegt von Walburga Litschauer. (Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke. Ser VII: Klaviermusik; Abt. 2: Werke für Klavier zu zwei Händen, Bd. 1.) Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2000. [Zur Edition, p. vii-viii; Vorwort, p. ix-xv; facsims., p. xvi-xxiii; score, 171 p.; Anhang, p. 173-235; Quellen und Lesarten, p. 237-55; Notenbeispiele, p. 257-58; Incipitverzeichnis, p. 259-62. Cloth. ISMN M-006-49711-9; BA 5553. € 189.]
Franz Schubert. Klaviersonaten III. Vorgelegt von Walburga Litschauer. (Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke. Ser VII: Klaviermusik; Abt. 2: Werke für Klavier zu zwei Händen, Bd. 3.) Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1996. [Zur Edition, p. vii-viii; Vorwort, p. ix-xiv; facsims., p. xv-xxi; score, 154 p.; Anhang, p. 155-232; Quellen und Lesarten, p. 233-45; Notenbeispiele, p. 247-48; Incipitverzeichnis, p. 249. Cloth. ISMN M-006-47247-5; BA 5537. € 174.]
Franz Schubert. Klaviersonaten I: Die frühen Sonaten. Herausgegeben von Walburga Litschauer. Urtext der Neuen Schubert-Ausgabe. (Bärenreiter Urtext.) Kassel: Bärenreiter, c2000. [Pref. in Ger., Eng., p. iv-xxi; facsims., p. xxii-xxix; score, p. 3-235. ISMN M-006-50713-9; BA 5642. € 34.90.]
Franz Schubert. Sämtliche Klaviersonaten, Band 1: Sonaten D 157, 279, 459, 537, 557, 566, 567, 568, Fragment D 154, Menuetto D 277A. Nach den Quellen herausgegeben, kommentiert und mit Fingersätzen versehen von Martino Tirimo. Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition, Schott/ Universal Edition, c1997. [Index, 4 facsims., 5 p.; pref., the present edition, and essay "Schubert and the Piano," in Ger., Eng., p. ix-xxxvii; score, 201 p.; appendix, p. 202-9; crit. notes, p. 210-29. ISMN M-50057-223-7; UT 50220. € 21.50.] [The publisher did not supply review copies of vols. 2 and 3 (published 1998-99) of the edition, and they are not addressed in this review. Publication data are as follows. Band 2: Sonaten D 571, 575, 613, 625, 664, 784, 840, 845, Fragmente D 655, 769A; xxxvii, 242 p. ISMN M-50057-224-4; UT 50221. € 21.50. Band 3: Sonaten D 850, 894, und 958-960; xxxiv, 222 p.; ISMN M-50057-225-1; UT 50222. € 21.50. Ed.]
Franz Schubert. 6 Polonaisen für das Pianoforte zu 4 Händen, Opus 61, D. 824 (1826). [Facsimile edition.] Concept: Sabine Goethals; tekst: Johan Eeckeloo, Sabine Goethals. Brussels: Bibliotheek Koninklijk Conservatorium, c1997. [Pref. in Dut., Fr., Ger., p. 3-4; essay "...à quatre [End Page 973] mains..." (J. Eeckeloo, S. Goethals), p. 5-17; facsim. reprod. (color), 2 gatherings (loose-leaf), 12 and 8 p.; technische fiche, 1 leaf. Compact disc: Schubert: 6 polonaises, D. 824; Divertissement à la hongroise, D. 818; Luc Devos, Jan Michiels, piano (ca. 1815), SABAM, SOV87/1134, 1997. € 55.73.]
Franz Schubert. Third and Fourth Movements of the Unfinished Piano Sonata in C Major, D. 840, "Reliquie." Completed by Gunter Elsholz. Bad Soden, Germany: Gunter Elsholz, [1999]. [Pref. in Eng., Ger., 2 p.; score, p. 1-23. € 26.08.]
Franz Schubert. Three Schubert Piano Fragments (D. 347, D. 900, D. 916C). Completed by Gunter Elsholz. Bad Soden, Germany: Gunter Elsholz, [1999?]. [Notes, 1 p.; score, p. 1-32. € 26.08.]

The subject of this review is a group of Franz Schubert editions that illustrates a variety of approaches to the task of presenting this composer's keyboard music to the reader. We have here examples of the scholarly complete edition that all users look to as the embodiment of truth about a work; the practical edition that angles its scholarship toward providing guidance specific to the performer's needs; the facsimile, offering an alternative but complementary route by which the gap between composer and posterity may be bridged; and the completion of fragments, which can round out a view of the composer...

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