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Yes, both fair points.

Hopefully someone here is enthusiastic enough (and has enough free time to donate) to help with the enormous task of typesetting the manuscript scores! (If you perchance know of any other avenues or outlets where there might be such enthusiasts, please let me know.)

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Sorry, no, there are so many violin concertos out there having no support without me, so I leave the operas to you. Good luck with your project!

Thank you!

The Wikipedia entry on Wayditch says of his idiom: "Though the early operas were post-Romantic in style, the later works are much more modern and are heavily dissonant. " If that's so, it would put all but his earliest pieces outside the scope of this forum, of course.

I am not sure how the Wikipedia author came up with this, given that almost none of his music exists (either as typeset scores or as recordings)! But I would imagine that at least a third of his music is in the Romantic vein, and quite likely considerably more than that, given the massive scope of his opera. Eretnekek is something like eight hours long, and the unfinished orchestral score (he apparently died while orchestrating it—the piano reduction is complete) is already 2,850 pages long!

Unfortunately, he did not! There are fourteen grand operas, two small songs, and various small arrangements or chamber pieces with materials derived from the operas, but no violin concerto, unfortunately. Let me know if you might be interested in helping with any of those!

I recently came across the music of the Hungarian-American composer Gabriel von Wayditch (1888-1969), who (rather extraordinarily) wrote fourteen grand operas, several of which are over five hours long. You can hear snippets of the only existing recording of his music here.

In case there are any music engravers here, I am looking for people who would be willing to help typeset Wayditch's manuscripts. They are in the possession of New York-based composer Frank Oteri, and he and I are in the process of scanning the manuscripts. Typesetting them will be a Sisyphean task, so it would be much appreciated if anyone would like to help. Please comment if you would be interested in volunteering!