Editing Jacques Offenbach (section)

===Arrangements and editions===
Although the overtures to {{lang|fr|Orphée aux enfers}} and {{lang|fr|La belle Hélène}} are well known and frequently recorded, the scores usually performed and recorded are not by Offenbach, but were arranged from music in the operas by Carl Binder and Eduard Haensch, respectively, for the Vienna premieres of the two works.<ref>Yon, p. 669 and Hall, George (1994). Notes to Decca CD 425–083–2 {{oclc| 659012365}}</ref> Offenbach's own preludes are much shorter.<ref>Gammond, p. 69</ref>

In 1938, [[Manuel Rosenthal]] assembled the popular ballet {{lang|fr|[[Gaîté Parisienne]]}} from his own orchestral arrangements of melodies from Offenbach's stage works, and in 1953 the same composer assembled a symphonic suite, ''Offenbachiana'', also from music by Offenbach.<ref>Salter, Lionel. [http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/November%201999/72/851471/ "Offenbach/Rosenthal – Gaîté Parisienne. Offenbachiana"], ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'', November 1999, p. 72</ref> Jean-Christophe Keck regards the 1938 work as "no more than a vulgarly orchestrated pastiche".<ref>[[Jean-Christophe Keck|Keck, Jean-Christophe]]. [http://www.offenbach-edition.com/EN/OEK/default.asp "Offenbach Edition Keck"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321215132/http://www.offenbach-edition.com/EN/OEK/default.asp |date=21 March 2012 }}, Offenbach Edition Keck, Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved 16 July 2011</ref> In Gammond's view it does "full justice" to Offenbach.<ref>Gammond, p. 135</ref>

Efforts to present critical editions of Offenbach's works have been hampered by the dispersion of his autograph scores to several collections after his death, some of which do not grant access to scholars. Although Auguste catalogued the sketches and manuscripts after his father's death, when the composer's widow died the surviving daughters battled over the papers.<ref>[http://www.kultiversum.de/Opernwelt/Magazin-Offenbach-Philologie-Keck-Der-Krimi-geht-weiter.html "Der Krimi geht weiter"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525201247/http://www.kultiversum.de/Opernwelt/Magazin-Offenbach-Philologie-Keck-Der-Krimi-geht-weiter.html |date=25 May 2014 }}, ''[[Opernwelt]]'', May 2012, p. 68, cited in full on [http://www.operetta-research-center.org/main.php?task=5&cat=4&sub_cat=10&id=00356 Operetta Research Center] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525213721/http://www.operetta-research-center.org/main.php?task=5&cat=4&sub_cat=10&id=00356 |date=25 May 2014 }} ("Boris Kehrmann. Gehört Offenbach nicht allen? Auch Jean-Christophe Kecks Offenbach-Edition lässt Fragen offen". 30 January 2013). Retrieved 25 May 2014.</ref> Many of his papers may have been lost in the [[Historical Archive of the City of Cologne#Collapse of the archive in 2009|collapse of the city archives]] in Cologne in 2009.<ref>[http://www.dw.de/collapsed-cologne-archives-show-challenge-of-preserving-history/a-4072655 "Collapsed Cologne Archives Show Challenge of Preserving History"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525235527/http://www.dw.de/collapsed-cologne-archives-show-challenge-of-preserving-history/a-4072655 |date=25 May 2014 }}, [[Deutsche Welle]]. Retrieved 25 May 2014.</ref>