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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 iscertainlyconnectedwithVienna,64but inthesense thathe isamusical figure–heisactiveasaperformer,hewritesaboutViennesemusic,edits MusicalQuarterly–he is anAdlerian figure inacertain sense. BN: Ofcourse, therehavebeenpeople like that.CharlesRosen65 (1927–2012) comestomind.Thereareothers. It’s interesting that intheUnitedStates therearethesepeople,buttheyaren’tconnectedtouniversities.Certainly, oneofAdler’smain accomplishments, in fact, but also ashe saw it,was theDenkmäler der Tonkunst inÖsterreich.The ideawas theywere not just forhistorical study,but rather forpublicationof the things thatyou wouldperform.TheAustrianonewasnotreally thefirst, theGermanone starteda fewyears earlier.66 PVB: But theAustriansare still going. BN: Theyare,andIthinktheyweremoresuccessful.Theywereabletoco-opt allkindsofmusic thatwasnotbyAustrians.Czechcomposersandsoon, Bohemia-dwelling.My father considered this somehow the pinnacle of scholarly accomplishment. Clearly, the purposewas, first of all, to per- formanational duty and to show that theAustrians really had thebest music, and to provide away of performing. They did publish some of themwith scoreandparts. PVB: It’s something I hadn’t really thought about. It’s certainly the case that critical editionsandthe traditionofcritical editions intheUnitedStates are inseparable fromcreatingperformance editions. It’s absolutely cen- tral to what A-R Editions does, whether it’s in their historical series, whether it’s in their collegium series, or whether it’s in something like their publications fromoral traditions.67 BN: That’s trueofMUSA,of course,with someexceptions.68 PVB: TheRossiniandVerdieditionsattheUniversityofChicago,they’renotto put on the shelves. They’re for RiccardoMuti69 (bn.1941) to perform 64 See, e.g., Leon Botstein: Judentum und Modernität. Essays zur Rolle der Juden in der deutschenundösterreichischenKultur, 1848bis 1938.Wien [u.a.]:Böhlau1991. 65 Charles Rosen was an American pianist, musicologist, and literature scholar. He is best knownforhiswritingsonmusicof theClassicalperiodandViennesemodernism.Heheld several academic posts, during the end of his career a professorship at theUniversity of Chicago. 66 DenkmälerDeutscherTonkunst.Leipzig:Breitkopf&Härtel, 1892–1931.Asacontinuation is to be seen: Das Erbe deutscher Musik. Kassel et al.: Bärenreiter Verlag et al., 1935–. (Multiple volumes incontinuouspublication). 67 Philip Bohlman is the general editor ofRecent Researches in theOral Traditions ofMusic, which ispublishedbyA-REditionsofMiddleton,Wisconsin/USA. 68 Music in the United States of America is a series of critical editions supported by the AmericanMusicological Society. 69 RiccardoMutiisanItalianconductorwhohasledsymphonyorchestrasandservedasmusic Adler inAmerica–AConversation 221 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0