EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1


Publisher: Ashdown & Parry
Date: (1870)
Plate number: W & S. No. 5301
Title: Grand Fantasia
Dedication: Madame la Princesse Catherine de Souzzo

In this later EE impression, endorsed on the cover already by Wessel's successors, the Ashdown & Parry company, the mistake in the name of the dedication's addressee was corrected. Several dozen changes were introduced into the score, most probably still in the last years of activity of Wessel's company, more or less in 1856-1860 (after Annotated Catalogue). The majority of them are justified additions, yet some changes resulted from the reviser's arbitrary interventions.

Numerous elements of notation were added or changed certainly, or highly likely, after comparing the text with GE1, e.g.:

  • Grave was added in bar 1, agitato in bar 68;
  •  were added in bar 4 and 14, 39,  in bars 27-28;
  • a slur and a staccato dot were added between bars 6-7;
  • a tie to g1 was added in bars 19-20;
  • pedal markings were added in bars 21-23 (erroneously in bar 22), 37 and 39, as well as in bar 69;
  • the L.H. chord on the 4th beat of bar 26 and 34 was changed;
  • g was added on the 2nd beat of bar 28;
  • a crotchet stem was added to the c1 quaver in bar 47;
  • pedal markings in bars 51-53 were changed;
  •  was added in bar 54;
  • accents were added in bars 68-69;
  • cresc. was replaced with  and cresc. in bars 236-237.

Some changes may or may not have been based on GE1, e.g.:

  • correcting C to B1 in bar 31,
  • adding an arpeggio in bar 34,
  • adding fingering in bar 61,
  • changing G1 to G1 in bar 67,

Some marks that were overlooked in EE1 were added on the basis of FE, e.g. the pedal markings in bar 68 or the long accent in bar 148. Other additions, generally small, were introduced too:

  • sempre  in bar 24;
  • a cautionary  to e2 in bar 269;
  • an additional L.H. slur in bars 285-286 (perhaps by mistake). 

In this context, the change in bar 10 stands out; in this bar, the FES version was introduced, which could not have been an accident and which indicates that the revision of EE2 was carried out with the participation of a person who had come into contact with this copy, perhaps Thomas D. A. Tellefsen.

Original in: Birmingham, University, Barber Music Library
Shelf-mark: r q M 1010.C55 (3)