Editing The Rite of Spring (section)

== Editions ==
[[File:PianoReductionRiteofSpring1913.jpg|thumb|Cover of the 1913 four-hand piano reduction of ''Le Sacre du printemps'', the first published version of the work]]
The first published score was the four-hand piano arrangement ([[Editions Russes#Names of imprints|Edition Russe de Musique]], RV196), dated 1913. Publication of the full orchestral score was prevented by the outbreak of war in August 1914. After the revival of the work in 1920 Stravinsky, who had not heard the music for seven years, made numerous revisions to the score, which was finally published in 1921 (Edition Russe de Musique, RV 197/197b. large and pocket scores).<ref name=VdT39 /><ref name=Craft />

In 1922 Ansermet, who was preparing to perform the work in Berlin, sent to Stravinsky a list of errors he had found in the published score.<ref name=Craft /> In 1926, as part of his preparation for that year's performance with the [[Concertgebouw Orchestra]], Stravinsky rewrote the "Evocation of the Ancestors" section and made substantial changes to the "Sacrificial Dance". The extent of these revisions, together with Ansermet's recommendations, convinced Stravinsky that a new edition was necessary, and this appeared in large and pocket form in 1929. It did not, however, incorporate all of Ansermet's amendments and, confusingly, bore the date and RV code of the 1921 edition, making the new edition hard to identify.<ref name=VdT39 />

Stravinsky continued to revise the work, and in 1943 rewrote the "Sacrificial Dance". In 1948 [[Boosey & Hawkes]] issued a corrected version of the 1929 score (B&H 16333), although Stravinsky's substantial 1943 amendment of the "Sacrificial Dance" was not incorporated into the new version and remained unperformed, to the composer's disappointment. He considered it "much easier to play&nbsp;... and superior in balance and sonority" to the earlier versions.<ref name=Craft>{{cite journal|author-link=Robert Craft|last=Craft|first=Robert|title=''Le Sacre du printemps'': The Revisions|journal=[[Tempo (journal)|Tempo]]|series=New Series|issue=122|date=September 1977|pages=2–8|doi=10.1017/S004029820002934X|jstor=945096|s2cid=145656784 }} {{subscription required}}</ref> A less musical motive for the revisions and corrected editions was copyright law. The composer had left Galaxy Music Corporation (agents for Editions Russe de la Musique, the original publisher) for Associated Music Publishers at the time, and orchestras would be reluctant to pay a second rental charge from two publishers to match the full work and the revised Sacrificial Dance; moreover, the revised dance could only be published in America. The 1948 score provided copyright protection to the work in America, where it had lapsed, but Boosey (who acquired the Editions Russe catalogue) did not have the rights to the revised finale.<ref>Walsh 1999, pp. 151–152</ref>

The 1929 score as revised in 1948 forms the basis of most modern performances of ''The Rite.'' Boosey & Hawkes reissued their 1948 edition in 1965, and produced a newly engraved edition (B&H 19441) in 1967. The firm also issued an unmodified reprint of the 1913 piano reduction in 1952 (B&H 17271) and a revised piano version, incorporating the 1929 revisions, in 1967.<ref name=VdT39 />

The [[Paul Sacher Foundation]], in association with Boosey & Hawkes, announced in May 2013, as part of ''The Rite''{{'}}s centenary celebrations, their intention to publish the 1913 autograph score, as used in early performances. After being kept in Russia for decades, the autograph score was acquired by Boosey & Hawkes in 1947. The firm presented the score to Stravinsky in 1962, on his 80th birthday. After the composer's death in 1971 the manuscript was acquired by the Paul Sacher Foundation. As well as the autograph score, they have published the manuscript piano four-hands score.<ref>Van den Toorn, p. 36 (note 30)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boosey.com/cr/news/Stravinsky-Rite-of-Spring-centenary-publications-announced/100069 |title=Stravinsky: Rite of Spring centenary publications announced |publisher=[[Boosey & Hawkes]]|access-date=3 April 2013 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407111544/http://www.boosey.com/cr/news/Stravinsky-Rite-of-Spring-centenary-publications-announced/100069 |archive-date=7 April 2013 }}</ref>

In 2000, [[Edwin F. Kalmus|Kalmus]] Music Publishers brought out an edition where former Philadelphia Orchestra librarian Clint Nieweg made over 21,000 corrections to the score and parts. Since then a published errata list added some 310 more corrections. Then in 2021, Serenissima Music published a newer Nieweg edition, incorporating 2,200 more corrections based on Stravinsky's autograph manuscript score, superseding the older 2000 edition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emsmusic.com/product_p/emsg204237.htm | title=STRAVINSKY, Igor (1882-1971) - Rite of Spring (complete) (Nieweg/Chang, 2021) (Critical Performing Edition). SERENISSIMA MUSIC | publisher=EMS Music |access-date=26 March 2024}}</ref>