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us, but it is also where many of the problems start, because composers are known to have made mistakes in their autograph manuscripts. And therefore we are required – we feel it is necessary – to intervene and to correct errors that sometimes have been perpetrated on these works by printed editions from the beginning, so they are just mistakes in the old editions, simple mistakes.
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We used sources in Rome, Paris, Vienna, and New York. The scores reprinted cheaply today simply reproduce all the errors, all the faults of these 19th-century scores—most of which were produced very quickly and, in Verdi's own words, "are filled with errors." ... The new critical editions have tried,
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Rossini. 'I'll never get through the Rossini,' Gossett said. 'But the Verdi – I'm hoping.'" However, in July 2013, the University of Chicago's
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had been given little serious academic study. As he noted: "If you were going to be a serious musicologist, you had to study
Beethoven or Bach or Gregorian chants, but Rossini -- that was a pretty funny idea" However, he persisted and notes that "I went to
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and some wine". Muti continues to explain that
Rigoletto's comment to Gilda (in which he says "that's just like him", meaning that the request is typical of his behaviour) which follows the Duke's remark, makes no sense without the word "sister" being
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for graduate work in musicology (and) I fell more in love with the music and wrote my doctoral dissertation on the music of
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685:" by Gioachino Rossini
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