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New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free"

Posted by timothy on from the don't-lose-your-composer-just-give-us-the-money dept.

Eloquence writes "Three years ago, Musopen raised nearly $70,000 to create public domain recordings of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Schubert, and others. Now they're running a new campaign with a simple but ambitious objective: 'To preserve indefinitely and without question everything Chopin created. To release his music for free, both in 1080p video and 24 bit 192kHz audio. This is roughly 245 pieces.'" Adds project organizer aarondunn: "His music will be made available via an API powered by Musopen so anyone can come up with ways to explore and present Chopin's life."

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  1. Re:Aaron (founder of Musopen) any ? I can answer? by aarondunn · · Score: 5, Informative

    I should add, /. was absolutely essential to the success of our first Kickstarter. I should release some info on our backers from the first time around, it's pretty interesting data. Suffice to say Slashdot referrals made up 30% of the total. So I guess I'm saying I'm counting on you :)

  2. Re:More ambitious by aarondunn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sadly copyrighted, we've asked the performer to release them. No luck so far.

  3. Re:API? by aarondunn · · Score: 5, Informative

    API for Chopin actually. And it will be if we make it :) It'll be structured data: listing of all his music with composition dates links from each recording to his sheet music list of major events in his life wikipedia and liner notes about each piece geographical information related to the music or events in his life etc. So people can try to do various things, node map, timelines. We have some of our own ideas we'd like to try.