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CHOPIN,
Frédéric, 1810-1849
Koncert
Fortepianowy F-moll op.21 / Piano Concerto in F Minor, op.21. Wydanie
faksymilowe rękopisu ze zbiorów Biblioteki Narodowej w Warszawie
(Mus. 215 Cim.) / Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript Held in the
National Library in Warsaw (Mus. 215 Cim.)
[Concerto, piano
& orch, op.21/Kob.258]
 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. $152 (view
other
volumes from this series)
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