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27th February: Eleanor Corr Wins ROSL Strings Prize, Unknown Beethoven piece to be performed, Lawyers algorithm puts 68 billion melodies into copyright

Thursday 27th February 2020

Violinist Eleanor Corr wins ROSL Competition Strings Section Prize

Violinist Eleanor Corr has won the Strings Section Prize in the 68th ROSL Annual Music Competition.

Corr competed against violist Julie Park, cellist Maxim Calver and fellow violinist Samuel Staples in an evening of music-making yesterday (Tuesday 25 February), winning her place in the sought-after Gold Medal Final alongside a £5,000 cash prize.

Adjudicators Gavin Henderson CBE, Geoff Parkin, Hannah Roberts and Rodney Slatford chose Corr to progress to the final on 1 June 2020, where she will compete for the £15,000 first prize. Korean-New Zealander violist Park was also chosen as the recipient of the £1,000 Len Lickorish Memorial Prize for a String Player of Promise.

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Unbekanntes Klavierstück von Ludwig van Beethoven wird aufgeführt

In Wien ist ein bisher unbekanntes Klavierstück des Komponisten Ludwig van Beethoven gefunden worden. Bei dem Werk handelt es sich um ein Doppelblatt mit Skizzen, die der Musiker zwischen 1790 und 1792 angefertigt haben soll. Das titellose Stück befindet sich in derselben Seitensammlung mit einem anderen, vor längerer Zeit entdeckten Klavierstück. Die Auffindbarkeit des neuen Werks erschwerte jedoch, da die Skizze am Ende einer Zeile und im direkten Anschluss an eine andere Skizze beginnt. Das 16-taktige Stück enthält sogar Überarbeitungen des Komponisten und eine abgekürzte Begleitung. Entdeckt wurde das Stück durch den Chefredakteur der Wiener Urtext Edition in der Musiksammlung der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus.

Die Melodie wird heute im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Beethoven und seine Verleger” in der Wienbibliothek von der Pianistin Doris Adam uraufgeführt werden. Außerdem hält der Finder Jochen Reutter einen Vortrag zu dem bislang nicht in Werkverzeichnissen aufgeführten Stück.

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Unknown piano piece by Ludwig van Beethoven will be performed

In Vienna a previously unknown piano piece by the composer Ludwig van Beethoven has been found. The work is a double leaf with sketches which the musician is said to have made between 1790 and 1792. The untitled piece is in the same collection of pages with another piano piece discovered some time ago. However, it was difficult to find the new work, as the sketch begins at the end of a line and directly follows another sketch. The 16-bar piece even contains revisions by the composer and an abbreviated score. The piece was discovered by the editor-in-chief of the Wiener Urtext Edition in the Music Collection of the Vienna Library in the City Hall.

The melody will be premiered today by pianist Doris Adam as part of the exhibition “Beethoven and his publishers” in the Vienna Library. In addition, finder Jochen Reutter will give a lecture on the piece, which has not yet been listed in the catalogue of works.

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Pour empêcher les procès pour plagiat dans la musique, un algorithme met 68 milliards de mélodies dans le domaine public

Damien Riehl, avocat spécialiste du droit d’auteur, musicien et développeur à ses heures, et son compère Noah Rubin ont créé un algorithme pour générer… toutes les mélodies possibles, avant de les protéger par des droits d’auteur, rapportent le site américain Vice. Pas pour avoir l’opportunité de poursuivre des musiciens en justice, bien au contraire. Dans une présentation TedxTalk, Damien Riehl explique que la musique, finalement, ce ne sont que des mathématiques. Il évoque la chanson My Sweet Lord composée et écrite par George Harrison, parue en 1970 sur son triple album All Things Must Pass. Une querelle juridique émergea peu après la parution de la chanson, basée sur des ressemblances harmoniques entre My Sweet Lord et la chanson des Chiffons He’s So Fine (1963). La décision rendue en 1976 par un tribunal de New York a conclu que l’ancien membre des Beatles aurait involontairement plagié He’s So Fine et le condamna à verser près de 1,6 million de dollars à la maison de disque Bright Tune, propriétaire des droits de ce titre.

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To prevent lawsuits for plagiarism in music, an algorithm puts 68 billion melodies in the public domain

Damien Riehl, a copyright attorney, musician and developer in his spare time, and his partner Noah Rubin have created an algorithm to generate… all possible melodies, before protecting them by copyright, reports the American site Vice. Not for the opportunity to sue musicians, quite the contrary. In a TedxTalk presentation, Damien Riehl explains that music, after all, is only mathematics. He evokes the song My Sweet Lord composed and written by George Harrison, released in 1970 on his triple album All Things Must Pass. A legal dispute emerged soon after the song’s release, based on harmonic similarities between My Sweet Lord and the Rags’ song He’s So Fine (1963). A 1976 New York court ruling concluded that the former Beatles member had unwittingly plagiarized He’s So Fine and ordered him to pay nearly $1.6 million to the record company Bright Tune, owner of the rights to the song.

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