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Complete Mozart Works Now Free
An anonymous reader writes "Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available for the first time free on the Internet. Although most classical music is obviously too old to be under copyright, the rights to specific editions of pieces are owned by the publishers. Now, the International Mozart Foundation has acquired the right to publish the prestigious New Mozart Edition of every Mozart work on the internet. The response has been so overwhelming that the Foundation has been forced to increase their server capacity."
Are you sure it isn't the Slashdot effect???
And now they're going to have to increase them again...
Can you download the music files also? If so, where are the links?
SEO Copywriter. Just Say ON
They finally finished reassembling him, eh? And he creates new works without charging a penny, eh?? EXCELLENT!
I now command the recently re-animated corpse of Mozart to pen me a symphony, with no expectation of compensation! POST-HASTE!
Probably not, but... okay, weirdest non-porn torrent ever?
I'm sure Mozart is finally wealthy enough to where having his music in the public domain won't hurt him.
Wait? He's been dead for 215 years? Oh. Nevermind.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
...had too many notes.
Whether it's legal or not, you will never be able to download Falco without having "issues".
I once had a whim and I had to obey it,
To buy a French horn in a second-hand shop.
I polished it up and I started to play it,
In spite of the neighbours who begged me to stop.
To sound my horn,
I had to develop my embouchure.
I found my horn,
Was a bit of a devil to play.
So artfully wound,
To give you a sound,
A beautiful sound,
So rich and round.
Oh the hours I had to spend,
Before I mastered it in the end.
But that was yesterday.
And just today,
I looked in the usual place.
There was the case,
But the horn itself was missing!
Oh where can it have gone?
Haven't you, hasn't anyone seen my horn?
Oh where can it have gone?
What a blow, now I know,
I'm unable to play my Allegro.
Who swiped that horn?
I bet you a quid somebody did.
Knowing I found a concerto,
And wanted to play it,
Afraid of my talent at playing the horn.
For early today to my utter dismay,
It had vanished away like the dew in the morn.
I've lost that horn!
I know I was using it yesterday.
I've lost that horn, lost that horn,
Found that horn
Gorn.
There's not much hope of getting it back,
Though I'd willingly pay a reward.
I know some hearty folk,
Whose party joke's pretending to hunt with the Quorn.
Gone away, gone away.
Was it one of them who took it away?
Will you kindly return that horn?
Where is the devil who pinched my horn?
I shall tell the police!
I want that French horn back.
I miss its music more and more and more.
Without that horn I'm feeling sad and so forelorn.
I found a concerto and wanted to play it,
Displaying my talent at playing the horn.
But early today to my utter dismay,
It had totally vanished away.
I practised the horn and I wanted to play it,
But somebody took it away!
I practised the horn and was longing to play it,
But somebody took it away!
My neighbour's asleep in his bed,
I'll soon make him wish he were dead,
I'll take up the tuba instead - WAA WAA !
/usr/bin/violin
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
You're missing the point! The scores have been set free in a victory against the RIAA! Now all I have to do is organise my own orchestra and I'm really going to be sticking it to the man...
I gotta agree with the AC, considering his point about FPSes.
Crap PC: £300
Half-Life 2: £20
Running HL2 on Intel Integrated Graphics: Priceless
I can't play free-from-copyright-music on my Zune.
Meanwhile, the webmaster for Salieri250thBirthday.org is still waiting for his hit-counter to go into triple digits, and plotting a DOS attack on Mozarteum.at.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
Information deserves to be free =)
Michel
Fedora Project Contribut
I'm sure my credit card information does want to be free. Me being the cruel and unjust tyrant that I am though, I shall keep it locked in the dungeon of my wallet. Damn thing ought to have some respect after all I've done for it anyways.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Great... a one character typo, and now I've got a mental picture of Linus in the middle of a battlefield wielding a big-ass hammer. Thanks a lot.
especially motzart... he hasn't eaten in like a hundred years thanks to you criminals and your file sharing.
sarcasm:
-noun
1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.