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CHOPIN,
Frédéric,
1810-1849
Piano Concerto
in F Minor, op.21. Facsimile Edition
of the Manuscript Held in the National
Library in Warsaw (Mus. 215 Cim.)
[Concerto, piano & orch,
op.21/Kob.258]
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detail of
piano part
Works
by Chopin—Facsimile Edition, A XII/21.
Warsaw, 2005. Oblong, 35 x 29 cm, 2
vols, 172, 76 pp. Full-color halftone
of the fair copy (autograph + copyist
MS). First volume of a new project of
the Fryderyk Chopin Institute to
reproduce Chopin’s entire œuvre in
facsimile. This precious manuscript
shows Chopin (responsible for the
piano solo part) working together with
a professional copyist who provided
the orchestration. It is difficult to
establish exactly the successive
stages by which the two musicians
prepared this score. It is certain
that the copyist, having the
"original" score as an exemplar, first
set down the bar lines; this is
confimed by the basic convergence
between the layout of the lines and
the density of the musical signs
contained within them. As with other
examples of fair copies from the
period there are also traces of ‘trial
runs’. The frequent, albeit minor,
differences in dynamics, slurring and
articulation between the autograph and
copyist's part testifies to the
heterogeneous origins of the fair copy
score as a source document.
Furthermore the copyist failed to add
to the orchestra part the corrections
and improvements made by Chopin in the
piano part. Commentary
(Pol-Eng-Ger-Sp-Fr-Jp) by Jan Ekier.
Bound in blue linen with matching
portfolio. $162
(view
other
volumes
from this series)
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