Posted by German publishers... on November 30, 2002 at 11:15:39:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Verdi Requiem posted by Jay Bertolet on November 30, 2002 at 09:54:59:
...seem to always list "tuba" in instrumentation for Italian works. It's a German edition you most commonly find on your stand. The reasonably priced Dover score of the Requiem is also a facsimile of a German edition, and it lists "tuba" in the instrumentation. However, if you look at Verdi's Requiem, the bottom part is scored, written, etc. EXACTLY as he did his cimbasso/trombone basso parts. For example, the tightly voiced Ab minor fanfare chords in the Dies Irae. There's no reason to think that he suddenly wanted "that devil of a tuba" playing the bottom part.