User:FForeclosers

I am obsessed with the violin fugues of Vaclav Pichl. Not that they're necessarily the best violin fugues ever, but that they are relatively straightforward fugues, easy to play, so that I, only moderately talented at mallet percussion and keyboard instruments, of less skill, can realize the exquisite intellectual pleasure of bringing forth simultaneous melodic lines mixed with theme-and-variations. I have assembled a bit of knowledge about these fugues:

1. The most common edition of Pichl's six fugues (opus 41) is the 1951 Orbis (Praha) edition. Orbis, as far as I can tell, no longer exists under that name (this is hard to tell because there are several publishing houses named Orbis, and because I base it on Orbis's lack of web presence that I can find without being exhaustive). Apparently Orbis was around prior to World War II. The latest publication I find web reference for is dated to 1996.

2. One of the Fugues (I think "Fuga IV", although I could be wrong), bears some similarity in subject to the second of Pachelbel's fugues on Magnificat. A music adjudicator told me Fuga I was a transcription of a Bach fugue, but I have not been able to find one that sounded all that similar in subject.

Anyway, the point of all this is such: The 1951 is the edition I've played from. This is also the earliest edition I have encountered. I would very much like to find a pre-1923 edition to make available on public domain sites and use for my own... purposes (rearrangement for voice) (it seems there's some legality issue with using modern editions of old music, even in rearrangement.) So, if anyone knows anything to add to this quest, please amend this page.