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Title: Raff Scores on Line
Post by: oldman on Sunday 17 January 2010, 02:34
While doing some internet searches, serendipity led me to an on line copy of the score to Joachim Raff's 4 Shakespeare Overtures.  For those who have interest in this, the URL is


http://books.google.com/books?id=iV8RAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8


Enjoy.
Title: Re: Raff Scores on Line
Post by: Ilja on Sunday 17 January 2010, 09:00
Unfortunately, not accessible to us on this side of the pond... (unless one is willing to fiddle with proxies).
Title: Re: Raff Scores on Line
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Sunday 17 January 2010, 12:33
Yes, but it's just an image from the library art Harvard University. The score is not available to purchase online from anyone.
Title: Re: Raff Scores on Line
Post by: thalbergmad on Sunday 17 January 2010, 12:58
Here it is for those that might struggle.

     http://rapidshare.com/files/336688433/Raff_-_Vier_Shakespeare_Ouverturen__score_.pdf                                                                                            (http://rapidshare.com/files/336688433/Raff_-_Vier_Shakespeare_Ouverturen__score_.pdf)

Thal
Title: Re: Raff Scores on Line
Post by: Mark Thomas on Sunday 17 January 2010, 16:47
These are the scores to only two of the four Shakespeare Preludes: Macbeth & Romeo & Juliet. The Tempest and Othello were never published. IMSLP (http://imslp.org/index.php?title=Category:Raff%2C_Joseph_Joachim) has many Raff scores available for free download as PDF. Most are chamber or piano scores but they have the partitur to these orchestral scores:

Symphony No.5 Lenore
Piano Concerto op.185
Ode au Printemps op.76
Orchestral Suite No.1 op.101
Festival Overture, op.117
Overture: Eine feste Burg op.127

To track down other scores go here (http://www.raff.org/scores/intro.htm).
Title: Re: Raff Scores on Line
Post by: chill319 on Tuesday 16 February 2010, 13:45
Just for fun...
A recent addition to IMSLP offers a peek into popular culture during the Weimar Republic, and Raff's position therein.

http://imslp.org/imglnks/usimg/b/ba/IMSLP56143-PMLP33739-Raff__J.J._Fleurette_Op.75__No1.pdf

The periodical Music Every Week (a bit like the old Etude, perhaps) reprints Raff's opus 75/1 with a still (possibly from the movie My Boy [1921]) showing Jackie Coogan practicing the tune on a fiddle prior to busking. Needless to say, the movie was silent, so any Raff reference would have been on an intertitle created for the German market. Presumably many in the audience would have known the tune instantly from its title.
Title: Re: Raff Scores on Line
Post by: eschiss1 on Tuesday 16 February 2010, 18:08
Last I checked though the score that was uploaded to IMSLP for symphony 5 was barely legible, more like a microform. Maybe a better scan has been uploaded since.