GE3 - Third German edition


Publisher: Fr. Kistner
Date: circa 1850
Title: Douze Grandes Etudes || No. 12
Dedication: SON AMI F. LISZT

Third German edition, in which a few revisions of the score of GE2 were performed, e.g.: the erroneous  mark in bar 22 was omitted, the slur in the R.H. in bar 50 was extended, superfluous flats in bars 67 and 68 were omitted, while cautionary accidentals in bar 77 were added.

In GE3 a number of mistakes was committed, e.g.: by reducing the excess of accidentals before the 2nd chord in bar 31, the necessary  before fwas removed; moreover, the lower  before the octave at the end of bar 32 was omitted. Omission of  in bar 45 may also be a mistake. In bars 70 and 78 an erroneous interpretation of rhythmic values and division into voices in the part of the R.H. was performed. The most serious change of this kind is the fact of printing d2 instead of cin the chord at the beginning of bar 56.

There are copies of GE3 which differ in the cover details. The pencilled annotations visible in the presented copy are of no source value.

Original in: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
Shelf-mark: M.S.66676