GE2 - Second German edition
| Publisher: | Breitkopf & Härtel |
| Date: | ca 1868 |
| Plate number: | 5654 |
| Title: | Second Concerto |
| Dedication: | Madame la Comtesse Delphine Potocka née de Komar |
In GE2 the text of GE1 was subject to a thorough revision, particularly compared to A (versions of A were restored in certain situations even there where changes in GE1 were performed probably by Chopin, e.g. the first chord in the L.H. in bar 25, slurs in bar 88). The changes encompassed pitch, rhythm and, above all, dynamic and articulation markings, including slurring.
Examples of described revisions are presented below, divided into groups.
- a few pronounced defects mentioned in the characterization of GE1 were corrected – bar 20, 29, 39, 41, two out of three mistakes in bar 80, bar 83, 87;
- a few changes of uncertain authenticity mentioned in the characterization of GE1 were reversed – bar 41, 81;
- slurs in the L.H. in bar 12, 31, added or distorted in GE1, were removed;
- one of the slurs in bar 31 was removed;
- range of slurs was improved, e.g. in bars 3-5, 7-17, 20, 32-34, 52, 63, 79, 85;
- slurs overlooked in GE1 were added in bar 17, 20, 42, 47, 59-60, 80;
- slurs in bar 38 were arbitrarily changed.
- staccato dots were added, e.g. in bars 7-17, 26-28, 80,
- accents were added, e.g. in bar 21, 23, 35,
- tenuto dashes were restored in bar 18 and 86,
- the erroneous change of pedal was removed in bar 27.
If slurs in parts of both hands differed in GE1, GE2 would unify them, e.g. in bar 63, 64.
Revision of accidentals was performed, adding overlooked signs, e.g. in bar 10, 22, 40, 60, 65.
In spite of a very detailed revision, certain mistakes remained unnoticed, e.g. no change of clefs in bars 49-50, no flats lowering g1(2) to g
1(2) in bar 62.
Having been edited after Chopin's death, GE2 has no influence on the determination of the text. There are copies of GE2 differing in the price on the cover.
A few annotations made in pencil, visible in the presented copy, are of no source value.
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | 2334/n |