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...DENIS VAUGHAN...
...dispute was touched off by Australian-born Conductor Denis Vaughan. While studying Italian opera in Italy, Vaughan, 34, was struck by the variations between different printed editions of Puccini's operas. He visited Ricordi, turned his attention to Verdi and began comparing printed scores with manuscripts. Eventually, Ricordi officials confiscated Vaughan's notes and banned him from the archives, but not before he had made some surprising discoveries: there are 27,000 errors in printed versions of Falstaff, 8,000 in the Requiem, 18,000 in Tosca. Examples, from Falstaff...
...general effect of the changes, Vaughan found, was to muddy a style that has far greater clarity than Verdi admirers realize. The orchestral volume has been in creased almost without exception, subjecting modern singers to shouting contests that Verdi never intended. Vaughan suspects that the same thing has happened to the works of others-including Bizet, whose manuscript he had a chance to examine briefly in Paris...
Ricordi's angry response is that certain changes are inevitable in the hands of strong conductors like Toscanini, who simply made the music "accord with the times.'' The company's irritation at Vaughan and his supporters is heightened by the fact that the Verdi copyright is due to run out at year's end, and Ricordi is anxious to extend its profitable monopoly for another 20 years. As for Vaughan, he is looking ahead to an "artistic revolution." When the copyright expires, he hopes, the whole operatic orchestra will be tuned back to its proper...
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