An American in Paris

George Gershwin's An American in Paris is published in a new critical edition that faithfully reconstructs the composer's original sound. This edition is based on Gershwin's handwritten scores, on the basis of which interventions from the revised version by F. Campbell-Watson have been corrected. Thus, among other things, it was possible to restore the originally intended instrumentation - including the iconic Parisian cab horns. Another special feature of this edition is the addition of playing techniques that correspond to the practical performance conventions of the time of composition and were extracted from historical recordings. In this way, Gershwin's musical portrait of an American in Paris gains new authenticity - between wanderlust, homesickness and the flair of urban modernity.