: Are there other re-orchestrations of Schumann's symphonies besides Mahler's? Like for example, maybe Stokowski? Bonus question: have Mahler's re-orchestrations ever been recorded and packaged without giving Mahler credit?

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I remember a time when it was remarkable for a conductor to record a Schumann symphony with the original orchestration, as Leonard Bernstein did in 1960, with "ORIGINAL ORCHESTRATION" right on the cover -- whether as a selling point or a warning, I don't know.

This page www.classicalnotes.net/classics3/schumannsym.html will tell you quite a bit about 20th-century conductors and what they each did. Almost always, the particular conductor made his own changes, usually without any indication in the liner notes.