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9th of February 2018: Today we celebrate the 90th birthday of Prof. Dr John Warrack, member of the advisory board of the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesellschaft and one of the fathers of our historico-critical edition of
Internationales Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Kuratoriumhad been founded in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. This Kuratorium was established in order to prepare the ground for the new Weber-edition and John Warrack was its English representative. Among his colleagues in this Kuratorium were
50 years ago!) was always an important work for consultation. During the London Weber Conference in the Royal College of Music last year the author of these lines started his talk with the following words It is now nearly half a century ago that John Warrack published his comprehensive monograph on Carl Maria von Weber with the publishing house Hamish Hamilton here in London. Warrack’s biography from 1968, which
the best treatment of its subject available in English
soon became not only the standard study of Weber in English
– but, despite a rather deplorable German translation, it also became the standard biography
in Germany, because the 377/489-pages-volume was based on thoroughgoing studies of Weber’s biographical documents as well as of his music and on a broad knowledge of the music of Weber’s time.
But still more than this book we highly estimated and estimate its author and his loyality and warm and generous friendship to the crew of the Weber-Complete-Edition. We sincerely congratulate to his 90th birthday and wish him all the best. And may we have the opportunity to congratulate to his 100th birthday with a complete (or nearly complete) complete edition!
Yours sincerely, The complete team of the Weber Complete Edition