On Jan 9, 2013, at 4:05 PM, Urs Liska wrote: > Am 09.01.2013 22:00, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: >> >> I'm a pianist, and I know Chopin very well and like him a lot, but I >> have *never* heard or played a song written by him. > I have two complete recordings of Chopin's songs, one of them published by > the Deutsche Grammophon. So they are existent. >> Regarding operas >> of Moniuszko, let's have a look at the statistics from >> http://www.operabase.com, for example the rank of the most performed >> composers and the associated language of the last five years: >> >> #1 Verdi Italian (3020 szenical runs) >> #2 Mozart German/Italian (2410) >> #8 Bizet French (654) >> #9 Handel English/Italian (598) >> #10 Tchaikovsky Russian (432) >> #15 Lehár Hungarian/German (281) >> #18 Janáček Czech (209) >> #59 Moniuszko Polish (32) >> #87 Chapí Spanish (?) (21) >> #96 Saariaho Finnish (?) (18) >> >>> It seems as if you thought that polish people don't write their own >>> music... >> Sorry to say, but this is utter nonsense. It's a matter of fact that >> from an international point of view Poland is not relevant to opera, >> as Austria is not relevant to musical, for example. It doesn't >> diminish the value of Polish music! > Maybe true. But it doesn't change the fact that it should be possible to > typeset scores in practically any language, if LilyPond wants to be 'for > everyone’.
Covering European languages including all the eastern ones is a straightforward task. Cyrillic is non-trivial unless you have be trained. I am glad I have the training! :-) To say all it sounds like you mean native american, African, Indic and Asian languages. I suspect you don’t really mean this however. At lest not immediately. Am I mistaken? -e. > > Urs _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
