What are the differences between the various editions of the Hoffmeister Concerto?
While each preparer of an edition of this concerto may have consulted the manuscript, said to be in the Saxon State Library in Dresden, many differences exist between the various editions, and it is really the performer’s choice which to play. If you are going to be performing this with orchestra as soloist, you can expect the orchestra to imitate your bowings and articulation of thematic material regardless of edition used, but it would be a good idea to make sure that the piano reduction you use in rehearsals correctly reflects the tutti passages in the orchestral score which will be used. For instance, in bar 44 of the viola part, your actual notes and the harmony of this cadence going into the little tutti are really different in the Doktor edition, as is the length of that tutti. If you wish to perform the Doktor edition, then perhaps the orchestra should obtain the score/parts which go with this one (International). There is a Cursi/Milano edition with which I am unfamiliar; othe
