Open Well-Tempered Clavier: a Kickstarter Campaign For Open Source Bach

rDouglass writes "The Open Goldberg Variations team has launched a new project to make an open source, public domain version of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. The work is significant because of its enormous influence on musicians and composers throughout history. A new studio recording, a new digital MuseScore score (with support for MusicXML and MIDI), as well as all source materials (multitrack WAV, lossless FLAC) will be provided as libre and gratis downloads. New to the project are publisher GRIN Verlag, as well as record label PARMA Recordings. GRIN and PARMA will produce and distribute the physical score and double CD, even though the digital versions are to be widely available and in the public domain. Their enthusiasm for the project runs counter to the general publishing and music industry's fear of digital file sharing, and shows growing momentum for finding new models to make free music commercially sustainable."

Comments

This will destroy the industry

[BenSchuarmer]

Why would this J. S. Bach guy write any more music if people are just going to steal it?

Re:This will destroy the industry

[steelfood]

He hasn't put out any new work in many years. Nor have other greats such as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Liszt.

This is definitive proof that piracy has killed the output of these famous, world-renowned composers and performers!