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Re: Music Shops around the world revisited

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:56 am
by fredbucket
isokani wrote:Thinking about going to BUDAPEST on Monday (been in the mountains too long ... ); where can I find some interesting scores?
Pianophilia.

Regards
Fred

Re: Music Shops around the world revisited

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 7:14 am
by isokani
Ha ha ha. Thank you, Fred!

Re: Music Shops around the world revisited

Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 3:36 pm
by alfor
Just ordered here:

www.valentinska.cz

Inexpensive (cheap and cheerful), low shipping rates (at least to Germany). Friendly people.

Re: Music Shops around the world revisited

Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 2:33 pm
by Jean-Séb
I will be in Leipzig next week-end. Does anyone know a music shop there, especially for second-hand scores ?

Re: Music Shops around the world revisited

Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 7:52 am
by timgill
M Oelsner Musikalienhandlung
Schillerstraße 5
04109 Leipzig

tel +49 (0)341 960 5200
email musik@m-oelsner.de
web www.m-oelsner.de

They sell new and antiquarian sheet music.

Hope that helps

Tim

Re: Music Shops around the world revisited

Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 9:15 am
by Jean-Séb
Thank you, Tim.

Re: Music Shops around the world revisited

Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:00 am
by timgill
Did you go to Oelsner, and were they any good?

Cheers

Tim

Re: Music Shops around the world revisited

Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:14 am
by Jean-Séb
Yes, thank you for the tip. I just came back yesterday night from Leipzig where I attended three exciting performances of the first three Wagner's operas : Liebensverbot, Die Feen and Rienzi.
Oelsner is a nice shop with friendly staff. The antiquariät section is at the first floor, wide enough to accommodate a grand piano and small concerts.
Regarding the used sheet music, it is properly classified by instrument. The solo piano section unfortunately was rather poor and I did not find anything really exciting, althouh I bought a few baroque pieces that I probably already have in other editions.
Anyway, it was interesting to visit, and I might be luckier if I return another time.
There is also a Antiquariät bookshop near Skt-Nikolai Church which has an interesting music section, mostly German books of course and God knows how abundantly and well they did write on music, with a few bounded scores.

Re: Music Shops around the world revisited

Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 7:29 am
by timgill
Oelsner is still run by Michael Rosenthal, who has been the manager/owner since at least 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down. I was in Frankfurt for the music fair the following March, and it was a very poignant and emotional time for Germans, with hundreds, probably thousands of east German musicians coming to the West for the first time.

Re: Music Shops around the world revisited

Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:40 am
by isokani
Anywhere in Paris?