EE2 - Second impression of EE1


Publisher: Wessel & Co.
Date: 1856-1860
Title: Grand Prélude
Dedication: Mademoiselle la Princesse Elisabeth Czernicheff

An additional print run of EE1, in which a number of corrections and additions were made on the basis of GE1 or by comparing analogous fragments. The changes included: added dedication, arpeggio w in bar 9, and tie sustaining a in bar 18, dynamic markings in bars 33-35 and 67, slur in bars 66-67, corrected rhythm in bar 48, altered rhythm in bars 67 and 71.

The presented copy comes from the reissue of EE2 with a modified title page, made around 1864 by Wessel's successors, Ashdown & Parry (no copy of the original print run made by Wessel & Co has been found to date). 

Original in: Cadbury Research Library Special Collections, University of Birmingham
Shelf-mark: q M 1010.C55 (7)