GE1a - Retouched impression of GE1
| Date: | 1841⇒ |
| Plate number: | 5654 |
| Title: | Second Concerto |
| Dedication: | Madame la Comtesse Delphine Potocka née de Komar |
A few years after the publication of GE1, minor changes of typographic nature were performed in subsequent impressions. It consisted in re-engraving a certain fragment of a page (of different size, from small, few-element areas, e.g. around a slur, to bigger ones, encompassing even a few lines of the text), most probably in order to remove the most striking defects of print related to the traces of corrections, revealed after some time. Although efforts were made to not to intervene in the essential content, inaccuracies contributing to significant differences, generally omissions of certain elements, would occur.* The editors of mUltimate Chopin examined three such impressions, represented by the following copies (in chronological order):
- A copy of the University of Chicago Library, available online, in which the retouches included e.g. the area around the slurs in the R.H. at the bottom of p. 6 (bars 107-109) or three bottom lines on p. 7 (bars 119-127).
- The copy presented in mUltimate Chopin, in which, apart from the aforementioned retouches, there is a retouch in the part of the R.H. at the end of p. 11 (bar 216).
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Another copy of the University of Chicago Library, also available online, in which, apart from the aforementioned retouches, one can see further retouches on p. 6, in the area around the slur over bars 102-103 (which contributed to the omission of the
sign in bar 99).
In accordance with the information of Annotated Catalogue, there were later impressions containing even more retouches of this kind (and inaccuracies). We define them collectively as GE1a and we discuss them only when a difference with respect to GE1 appears.
* This phenomenon can be observed also in the Etude in G
minor, op. 25 no. 6 or in the Polonaise in E
major, op. 22 – see the characterization of GE1b in the Etude and of GE1a in Andante spianato.
| Original in: | Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | II.3 |