GE2 - Second German edition
| Publisher: | Pietro Mechetti qm Carlo |
| Date: | (1868) |
| Plate number: | P. M. No 3577 |
| Title: | Polonaise |
| Dedication: | Madame la Princesse Charles de Beauvau née de Komar |
Second German edition, introducing far-reaching changes, inconsistent with Chopin's usual practice, in the graphic layout of the text, e.g.:
- changes to the arrangement of L.H. beams in b. 9-15 and similarly,
- placing the lowest R.H. notes on the upper staff in b. 17-18, 24-26 and analogously, as well as b. 79-82, 250, 258, 261-264.
Other arbitrary changes include:
- adding articulation markings below the L.H. part, e.g. slurs in b. 1-4, 250-252, 258-263, slurs and staccato dots in b. 24-26, 83-102, 111-126,
- separating a c
2 crotchet from the chord at the beginning of b. 43, 69 and analogously.
Moreover, some defects were corrected, and other justifiable amendments introduced:
- a demisemiquaver was changed to semiquaver in b. 33,
- a most probably inaccurate slur was extended in b. 162-163,
- a cautionary
before b2 was added in b. 183, - most probably overlooked slurs were added in b. 325-326.
New errors were also committed, e.g. the accompanying R.H. voice was overlooked on the first beat of b. 70.
| Original in: | Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | O.44-2 |