GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
| Publisher: | Breitkopf & Härtel |
| Date: | (1867) |
| Plate number: | 6654 |
| Title: | Fantaisie |
| Dedication: | Madame la Princesse Catherine de Souzzo |
Second impression of GE1, in which the majority of errors was corrected, and further arbitrary changes were made. The revisers focused on controlling whether the A notation was reproduced correctly rather than on detecting mistakes inherited from A, which is proven by the ratio of the introduced corrections in both these groups – out of 7 A mistakes, mentioned in the description of GE1 as unnoticed in this edition, in GE2 only the first one was corrected, whereas the respective ratio among the mistakes and inaccuracies committed in GE1 is 20:5 in favour of the introduced corrections (the mistakes in bars 14-15, 28, 47-59, 62-63 and 198 remained uncorrected).
In some cases corrections were inaccurately carried out:
- the dashes marking the range of the indication in bar 192 were added, but they remained related to dim. instead of accel., which is contrary to the A notation;
- the erroneous tie to d
1 in bars 199-200 was removed, but its authentic prototype in bar 200 was not added.
Interventions not of the nature of corrections are not very extensive either:
- authentic articulation of the first two notes of the Fantasy was changed, replacing the staccato dots with a slur;
- a cautionary
was added to b
1 in bar 71.
The copy presented in mUltimate Chopin comes from the years 1872-1873, as indicated by the price in marks added on the title page, introduced as part of the money reform in 1872.
The few pencil notes visible in this copy have no source value.
| Original in: | University Library, Poznań |
| Shelf-mark: | 744204 III |