One point worth pondering, and that comes up the minute we step away
from Bach, is that for composers with a historical consciousness one
must also consider a third issue: not just what was written and what
was available, but what would the composer have endorsed, and when?
Consider Berlioz and the ophicleide. He wrote for it--no question. It
was available, and used not only for premieres but for many subsequent
performances--again, without question. Yet it is also beyond question
that he later endorsed the use of the tuba preferentially for all these
parts, without the slightest change in the written music.
So: do we play the _Symphonie Fantastique_ w. ophicleides or tubas? The
answer imo is neither easy nor obvious.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://www.kallistimusic.com/
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