EE1 - First English edition
| Publisher: | Wessel & Co |
| Date: | XI 1836 |
| Plate number: | W & Co. No. 1642 |
| Title: | Second Concerto |
| Dedication: | Madame Anderson, de Londres |
Dating of EE1, both of the first impression and of the one we present in mUltimate Chopin, as well as Chopin's participation in the development of EE1 – see the characterization of this edition in the 1st mov. of the Concerto.
EE1 encompasses the Concerto only in a version for piano solo – the orchestral material was not printed by Wessel. It was based on the proof copy of FE2, although not all changes introduced in FE2 were included therein, e.g. a 
restoring d
1 in bar 2. In turn, it was carefully revised by the editor who controlled the notation of accidentals and reviewed performance markings, e.g. comparing analogous places (e.g. 
in bar 1 was added, pedalling in bar 82, slurs in the L.H. in bar 34 were unified). As a consequence, EE1 contains much less errors than GE1 or FE.
Among the corrections and changes introduced to EE1 we can find:
- revisions (generally additions) of accidentals, including cautionary, e.g. in bar 10, 22, 69;
- corrections of mistakes of FE in bar 43 and 83 (also in the L.H.);
- additions of slurs, generally in the L.H., e.g. in bars 3-4, 13, 35, 42, 56, 60-61, 65, 67-68;
- changes in the range of slurs, e.g. in bar 1, 29;
- change in the rhythmic notation in bars 6 and 28 as well as change of rhythm in bar 80;
- shortening long accents, e.g. in bar 40 as well as replacing Chopin accents with vertical ones, e.g. in bars 22-23 or 52;
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addition of staccato dots in bars 7-17 and 35, accent in bar 22, a
sign in bar 26; -
addition of the bottom octave to E in bar 82.
The copy presented in mUltimate Chopin comes from a reprint of EE1 from 1845, in which the original, individual cover was replaced with a serial one, enumerating all Chopin's pieces published by Wessel so far. Few annotations in pencil in the presented copy are of no source value.
| Original in: | Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai, Bergamo |
| Shelf-mark: | Piatti Lochis 8570 |