Period: Classic
The pianist Péter Solymos´s work encompassed teaching and performing, in addition to which he also spent considerable time preparing editions. An urtext edition of Beethoven´s 32 piano sonatas in three volumes, revised by him, was published at the beginning of the 1980s. In studying the great composer´s manuscripts, Solymos came to the realization that Beethoven´s ´´representation of the music serves to help us understand the work; the form of the visual appearance is at one with the content. (...) In this edition I was also guided by respect for the original notation.´´ Drawing on this principle, Solymos retained among other things the stemming of the notes, the beaming of groups of notes, and his edition also tries to follow the composer´s fair copy in the layout of the music between the staves. His work serves to underpin an authentic performance.