Summary The development of music publishing in the final years of the eighteenth and first decades of the nineteenth century had a decisive and far-reaching influence on every facet of the music profession. The proliferation of publications substantially altered the conception of the musical work and the nature and extent of intellectual property. Increasingly this allowed composers to support themselves financially through the sale of their own works, or even to establish, or collaborate in, publishing houses. The needs of contemporary consumers of music and new approaches to the production and dissemination of the musical work conditioned, and were conditioned by, the ever-evolving spheres of public and domestic performance that, in turn, stimulated the emergence of new musical forms and genres. This book focuses on the role of music publishing within the daily life and activities of composers at the turn nineteenth century, and its impact on subsequent patterns of development that influenced the course of nineteenth-century music. TABLE OF CONTENTS Massimiliano Sala, Preface Composers, Editions and the Musical Work Nancy November, Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber by His Contemporaries Rainer Kleinertz, Werk und Zyklus. Zur Reihenfolge der Streichquartette in Haydns Opus 33 und Mozarts Opus 10 Maria Birbili, The Proliferation of Musical Sources in the 19th Century: An Abridged Editorial History of Rossini, Verdi, and Puccini's Italian Opera Myron Gray, What Is an Author of Early American Music? Die Zauberfl te and the Culture of Reprinting The Market, the Rights and Publishing Strategies David Rowland, Composers, Publishers and the Market in Late Georgian Britain Bianca Maria Antolini, Compositori, editori, fruitori: una rete di rapporti Giovanna Carugno, A chi apparteneva il Nabucco ? Note storiche sulla propriet dello spartito e sulla controversa tra gli editori Lucca e Ricordi Floris Meens, Eine heillose Geschichte! : The Discourse on Publishers in Dutch Music Journals (ca. 1839-1860) Circulation Henri Vanhulst, Compositeurs 'belges' de musique instrumentale dit s Paris au XVIIIe si cle: la qu te reconnaissance internationale Stephanie Klauk, Handschriftliche berlieferung von Streichquartetten im Rom des 18. Jahrhunderts Sarah Noemi Schulmeister, Musikverleger des 18. Jahrhunderts als international agierende Akteure des Transfers: Der Fall Antoine Huberty Elisabetta Righini, Disavventure editoriali e concertistiche di Giovanni Battista Cirri dal soggiorno londinese (1764-1775) al rientro in patria Repertoire and Public Maria Jo o Albuquerque, Music Printing and Publishing in Portugal (1750-1850): The Rise of a New Industry Francisco J. Gim nez-Rodr guez, Four Unknown Waltzes by Beethoven? The Beginnings of Sheet Music Publishing in Spanish Periodicals (1805-1834) Gloria Araceli Rodr guez Lorenzo, La Iberia Musical y Literaria (1842-1846): Connecting the Public and Private Sphere