FES - Stirling copy


Publisher: Maurice Schlesinger
Date: (1843-1848)
Plate number: M.S.1940
Title: Second Concerto
Dedication: Madame la Comtesse Delphine Potocka née de Komar

A pupil's copy from a collection belonging to Chopin's pupil, Jane Stirling. It contains numerous annotations, including:

  • fingering in bar 6 and 24
  • performance indication –  in bar 1,
  • corrections of printing errors – in bar 39 (grace note before the trill), 77 (deleton of a note, most probably erroneous) and two in bar 83 (minim in the L.H. and the last octave in the R.H.).

The most extensive, unique entry is a different version of the middle section (bars 45-72), to be used when performing the Concerto solo, in which the recitative (the top line, played by the R.H.) is complemented with figurative harmonic accompaniment.

Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Shelf-mark: Rés. Vma.241 (III.21)