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.