2 editions of Schirmer K 545, why the difference?
I'm a bit confused. The first and third movements in the 2 editions I have of the K 545 sonata have no difference at all.
But the second movement has a difference in the development section. Both editions are from the same people who published 19 Sonatas for the Piano where K 545 is Sonata I.
The older edition I have has a few bars of false recapitulation before the whole development repeats. The newer edition doesn't have that, just a true recapitulation after the G minor development.
Why the difference though? I can understand that different editors emphasize different things about Mozart and the only way to get everything is to look at Mozart's original manuscript which I doubt exists anymore for this sonata. I can also understand minor differences from 1 edition to another.
But this is the case of 2 editions from the same publisher being significantly different. Why?
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If you want to find out what Mozart actually wrote (or the best approximation you can get to that given the current state of musicological research) then go to an authoritative source such as the Neue Mozart Ausgabe - dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma.
Schirmer's "editions" are just photographic reprints of whatever out-of-copyright edition they feel like reprinting, and often they don't tell you what the original edition was. Their musicological value is zero. They used to have the advantage of being cheap, but since the internet they don't even have that advantage, compared with imslp.org/ (which contains much more material than Schirmer, often including the first published edition and/or the composer's original manuscript).
There's little point copying the NMA edition here, since it's easy to find either from the NMA website or from IMSLP (and IMSLP has seven different editions - all free - if you want to cherry-pick the one that suits your individual ideas about how the piece should go!)
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