besides practice using a notation/score preparation program - is that sites like Mutopia (www.mutopiaproject.org) and others accept LilyPond files of pieces they don't have (in uncopyrighted editions, ...) to better distribute these scores to interested people. If you don't have LilyPond they also offer the PDF that LilyPond can be used to produce.
(Hrm. Though I see they do have KV478 - the piece in question - already. As I thought, I really should have checked! My main reason for choosing the first piano quartet wasn't because Mutopia didn't have it, but because I'd played it back in college. Wonder if I have a piece they don't, besides the Reissiger ... probably do. A Rubinstein piano work I bought at the Ithaca Friends of the Library Book Sale may do for the porpoise... but I'll continue working on the Mozart for practice. Hrm. Yes, I should have checked that months ago - found out by searching http://www.mutopiaproject.org/browse.html and clicking Mozart, then searching for 478 ... eh well. Worse disappointments have hit me even yesterday, and they weren't major.
They don't have the Schumann piano trio or violin sonata, and I have an early score of the latter... hrm... *bing!!* time to learn more and practice more... happy, happy... *and to sleep, need to catch the 9am-ish bus*
(violin sonata no. 1 op. 105 whose beginning I do have in the Schumann folder - if you like early-Romantic music- 1851, in this case- I recommend getting a recording of it, there are a few good ones; Gidon Kremer has one out, I have another on the Hanssler Classic label with both "canonical"/official sonatas.
The recording I have- as a few other recordings do, but not many- also has the less-known 3rd of Schumann's sonatas- which "borrowed" from a project of his, of Brahms', of their friend Albert H Dietrich... Schumann had written two movements of a four-movement sonata called the F-A-E sonata for their friend Joseph Joachim. Schumann then took his two movements, added two new ones, and made that his own third sonata. ;)...
Eric (oh, there is a blog rating feature, up at the top right- I'll have to use that now ;^) )
(Edit: yes, what I'm uploading is my work, even though there's already a version produced by the same program on the net. If anything, I suspect the version on the net was produced by a more recent version of LilyPond which I haven't yet learned, and doesn't have the mistakes I still make :) )
