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• 1 2026-02-12T09:44:30+00:00 Weber: Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, op. 74 7 Sources and editions plain 2026-02-12T16:12:02+00:00

  Composer
  Carl Maria von Weber
  
  Work title
  Concerto No. 2 in E flat  major, op. 74

  Composition date
  1811

  Selected manuscript sources
  Autograph score from Weber's private library in D-B ms. autogr. C. M. v. Weber WFN 12 (not digitised).
  
  Autograph copy in Weber's hand, previously owned and used by Heinrich and Carl Baermann, in US-NYpm 1811. W3733.C7445 (not digitised).
  The Morgan Library catalogue record states 'Heinrich Baermann has written the playing times at the end of each movement (10 minutes, 8 minutes, 8 1/2 minutes), but they have been erased from the second and third movements'. Gertsch additionally notes 'numerous additions in ink and pencil by various unidentified hands'.
  
  Autograph copy made for F. W. Jähns in 1865 in D-B Weberiana Cl. IV A, Bd. 21 also contains some notes relating to details in the Baermann family copy.

  Early prints
  First edition, supervised by Weber: Schlesinger pl. 1240 (1825). Also available commercially as part of the Henle Urtext edition (see below), and as Lineau RL36290.
  
  Carl Baermann edition
  Robert Lineau/Schlesinger, pl. S. 1240 (c. 1870). Digitisation available from Hathi Trust.
  
  Metronome marks:
  I Allegro: crotchet = 108
  II Romanze: quaver = 92
  III Polacca: crotchet = 100
  
  Modern critical editions
  Henle 732, edited by Norbert Gertsch. Henle (2003).  Urtext version based on the MS sources and first edition, alongside Baermann's edition.
  Weber Sämtliche Werke V Bd. 6., Schott WGA 1056 (2010), edited by Frank Heidlberger. Also available as Schott KLB 79 (piano reduction, first edition version only) and Eulenberg ETP 1903 (miniature score with parallel clarinet parts).
  
  Notes
  See prefaces and critical commentaries to the urtexts by Gertsch (2003) and Heidlberger (2010) for further information.