GE2 - Corrected impression of GE1
| Publisher: | Fr. Kistner |
| Date: | ⇒1840 |
| Plate number: | 1020.1021.1022 |
| Title: | Grand Concerto |
| Dedication: | Monsieur Fréd. Kalkbrenner |
Second impression of GE1 in which several dozen mistakes were corrected. Judging by a small number of changes, which are mainly local corrections and not a systematic proofreading (some patent mistakes were left unchanged, e.g. in bar 659), GE2 was most probably released shortly after GE1. Anyway, until 1840, when a monetary reform forced changes of price on the covers, two impressions of GE2 had been prepared (differing in covers only). Therefore, it seems likely that the earliest was released a few years earlier, i.e. around 1834-1837.
The changes introduced in GE2 include:
- addition of a third, demisemiquaver beam in two groups of semiquavers in bar 149,
- change of the e2 crotchet to f
2 at the end of bar 223, - change – after analogy with similar bars – of d2 to b1 in bar 290,
- change of the erroneous f1 to d1 and addition of an overlooked quaver flag in the chord at the beginning of bar 300. The erroneous last semiquaver in the L.H. in this bar was also corrected,
- correction of the erroneous
to a 
before b1, the 8th semiquaver in the L.H. in bar 328, - correction of a Terzverschreibung mistake (b1 instead of d2) in bar 543.
Apart from the above corrections of generally patent mistakes, GE2 introduced an arbitrary change at the beginning of bar 416 – the authentic e1-b1 fifth was changed to an e1-a1 fourth. That apparently justified revision was repeated in numerous subsequent collective editions, which consolidated it in performance practice for a long time.
Other uncorrected mistakes – bar 483, 484.
There are copies of GE2 differing in covers; the ones with changed prices were published after 1840.
| Original in: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Shelf-mark: | M237 C54 C695 c1 |