Here's hoping for an undiscovered bassoon concerto! On a more serious note, I really hope "made public" means making the digitized copies available to anyone o

Here's hoping for an undiscovered bassoon concerto! On a more serious note, I really hope "made public" means making the digitized copies available to anyone on the web, without restriction. There is an enormous amount of music that has lapsed into the public domain (most of it long out of print) that remains inaccessible because the parts can only be found in a handful of libraries. Even worse, many libraries restrict borrowers from making digital copies of public-domain works. Regardless of what Verdi intended for his drafts, I can't help thinking that most deceased composers would have been dismayed that their works remained obscure in an era where they could be instantaneously disseminated across the world for anyone to enjoy. (Time to donate to IMSLP again...)