Archive swoop: Sacher takes a chunk of Schott
mainThe hugely endowed Paul Sacher Foundation in Basle has acquired some 3,000 items from the Schott Music publishing archive.
They include manuscripts of two Hans Werner Henze operas, a handwritten piano score of Stravinsky’s violin concerto and György Ligeti’s Lontano and Chamber Concerto. Most of the acquisition is made up of correspondence between composers and the ublisher.
The Sacher foundation is the world’s largest resource of 20th century music manuscripts, funded by Big Pharma.
As many a woman will tell you, a big endowment isn’t everything, it’s how you use it that matters.
Of all of the critical comments that get rejected because of whatever stupid reason, and you choose to publish this garbage comment?
Good news: these items will be kept safely. Somebody should write a biography of Sacher. Not that he was all that important as a musician, but he was a real instigator and commissioned so many works.
Yes, very good news. However, A biography of Paul Sacher: “Symphony of Dreams; The conductor and Patron Paul Sacher” by Lesley Stephenson appeared in 2002 (published by Rüffer & Rub, Zürich). Interesting reading.
Thank you for the information. Sacher wasn’t an easy person to get close to; his fortune made him rather inaccessible.
Every rich person keeps his hand on his wallet.
The photograph shows Ligeti’s Symphonic Poem for 100 metronomes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abagwyaMavI
Using period instruments I suppose.