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REPERTOIRE EXPLORER

...an idealistic publishing activity looking for participants and partners which may interest you...

Peter Dietz pdietz@musikmph.de www.musikmph.de Peter WRITES: If somebody studies music seriously his situation is deeply frustrating. Most music not part of the small repertoire well known and often played, is no longer available or has never been printed. And there is not a single publishing house keen to print these scores again or for the first time for study purposes, as there is no business to be expected. Two years ago, we and some musicloving friends, who all were suffering from this sad fact, decided to change the situation and began to publish the music, we missed for a long time. This was the beginning of REPERTOIRE EXPLORER- (cataloque on http://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/information/information.html) Within these two years of the project an international circle of like-minded people met ­musicians, journalists, musicologists, conductors and all kinds of music lovers - and succeded in publishing more than 180 scores of rare music (including the new full score series OPERA EXPLORER) Without a financier in the background, but with the skills, the enthusiasm and the love of all members, as “amateurs³ in the true sense of the word: people who work out of dedication. Meanwhile you can find our scores in all important music libraries all over the world. We would be thrilled to print many more works as study score ­ our desired list of rare music is very long and we do have the love and power to increase our activities ­ but there is one main problem making publishing very difficult and tough going: the prefaces. In the beginning of our project we decided that every score will contain a competent foreword in professional quality, both in German and English. This decision was a matter of our heart, since we were not interested in producing sloppy, too expensive copies of precious works of art, but to dedicate ourselves to every individual work and to document its specific originality. Unfortunately we and all friends and contributors cannot do more work than we do now (We seriously protest the 24 hour-day). So we are looking for people, who would enjoy to contribute to this project, either by translating prefaces from German to English (we need native speakers) or by writing original prefaces in English. This is an urgent need, for symphonic and chamber music as well as for opera. Our enterprise is based on an idealistic idea, and one rule of this activity is: “You scratch my back, and I´ll scratch yours.³ We do not pay money, but we try to favour each other whereever we can. So, if you like to share this activity, the easiest way to return the favour is sending you a score of your choice in return, but maybe you even have better ideas what we can do for you? And besides the question of prefaces every idea, inspiration, advice, cooperation or whatever will come to your head is warmly welcome. Many thanks for your interest and help. From Munich to whereever this mail will be read Peter Dietz pdietz@musikmph.de www.musikmph.de