EE2 - Changed impression of EE1
| Publisher: | Wessel & Co |
| Date: | ca 1856-1859 |
| Plate number: | W & Co. No. 1643 |
| Title: | Grande polonaise brillante précédée d'un Andante spianato |
| Dedication: | None |
The changes described below were most probably introduced in the impression of EE launched ca. 1856-1859. However, none of the copies of this impression has been found, hence in mUltimate Chopin we present its reprint, already endorsed by Wessel's successor, the Ashdown & Parry company, dated ca. 1866.*
A significant number of the changes introduced in EE2, including corrections of some mistakes, was probably drawn from GE1, which is evidenced particularly by the change in b. 125-126, introducing a version that is to be found in GE only:
- POLONAISE was added in b. 1,
- e
1 was added to a on the penultimate quaver in b. 42 and 186, - two flats and a cautionary
were added in b. 59-60 and analog., two flats (one cautionary) in b. 73-74, a cautionary 
in b. 114, a in b. 149, a and a cautionary in b. 223-224 and analog., - a demisemiquaver beam was added in the quintuplet in b. 87,
- in the group of three small notes in b. 125-126, quavers were changed to semiquavers,
- f was changed to d in b. 128, the E-eoctave to C-c in b. 129, a1 to b1 in b. 130,
was added in b. 172.
In addition, an independent ordering of accidentals was continued, e.g. the superfluous before b at the end of b. 7 was removed, and analogous places were standardised, e.g.:
- b2-d3 was changed to b2-e3 in b. 37 – accurate correction of a mistake,
- the last semiquaver in b. 101 was changed from g3 to f3 – arbitrary revision, probably contrary to Chopin's intention.
* Information after Annotated Catalogue Online.
| Original in: | Bodleian Library, Oxford |
| Shelf-mark: | Tyson Mus. 318 |