Someone have Carl Mikuli Editions.....?

[anafressari]

I recently bought a Chopin collectionof Carl Mikuli... can someone give me an opinion about his fingering? I wanted more fingering indications 

[robertp]

Many snob the Mikuli editions, since they're not Urtext. That's a mistake, I think.

M. was a Chopin student. He's a valuable source of information on how Chopin taught and played the works. He's not a substitute for an Urtext, but he's definitely worthwhile. Not just my opinion -- whiles back in one of the musicology journals there was a review of all the Chopin editions, and M. came off rather well.

Right now I play the Etudes from Badura-Skoda's Wiener Urtext edition, but I keep Mikuli and Pad. around. When the new Urtext series from Peters does the Etudes, I may change. Thier Preludes, Ballades and Waltzes make a very good impression.