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1160: What Bottesini Really Wrote – Mark Morton’s Urtext Editions

Mark Morton joins Jason to discuss his decades-long project creating practical Urtext editions of Giovanni Bottesini’s music.  Drawing on 3,656 photographs of manuscripts from the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma, Mark has completed editions of 11 works so far, with the goal of eventually covering all 84 of Bottesini’s compositions. He explains how he compares multiple…