Beethoven - Piano Concerto Nr.5 Es-Dur Op.73

The present edition of this Fifth Concerto is the result of renewed revisions. Besides comparison with the Autograph of the score (in the Royal Library, Berlin), we have collated the text with three different impressions of the original edition published by Breitkopf & Hartel, register 1613, which is called A, B and C respectively. All three impressions were taken from the same plates; though C was provided with a new title-page. Impressions A and B are quite similar externally; but in B a considerable number of errors were corrected, these errors being,in fact, of such a kind (judging by the oautograph of the score, at least) that they ought to have been corrected before the publification of A. As for the other corrections contained in B, there can hardly be a doubt, judging from external and internal evidence, that they are directly traceable to the composer's own intentions. These changes, of course, are likewise to be found in C.