GE3 - Third German edition


Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel
Date: ca 1863-1864
Plate number: 5707
Title: Deux Polonaises || Polonaise I
Dedication: son ami J. Dessauer

The third German edition performed a few arbitrary changes with respect to GE2. The most important include:

  • revisions of the slurring in bars 4-5 or bar 30;
  • revisions of dynamic hairpins (generally minor increase of the range) in bars 6, 11.

Moreover, the editor also added the necessary accidentals in bar 71.
In addition, the edition includes a number of significant mistakes:

  • the "s" letter was overlooked in some of the  indications (bars 19 and 21)
  • the voices in bar 19 were erroneously assigned
  • the necessary accidentals next to the grace notes in bar 29 and in bar 49 were removed
  • the stem next to b1 in the R.H. in bar 37 was removed.
Original in: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
Shelf-mark: S.H. Chopin 109