RIP Walther Dürr
Walther Dürr, the editor of the complete Schubert songs for the Bärenreiter edition, died last February. He did not live to see the completion of this great project, since his last work was on volume nine (there are thirteen volumes.) He was an engaging individual, who visited Belgium towards the beginning of the now-abandoned Schubertreise series in Bever, where he gave an impromptu talk on publishing. He admitted to me that Schubert wrote too many songs for his own good, an