EE2 - First English edition
| Publisher: | Wessel & Co. |
| Date: | 1835-1836 |
| Title: | Douze Grandes Etudes || No. V |
| Dedication: | ses amis J. Liszt et Ferd. Hiller |
In the first English edition the entire Opus 10 is divided into two books, six Etudes each, while EE2 is the earliest known impression of the 1st book. As it is uncertain whether the text of the previous impressions differed from the text of the presented copy, on the basis of the current state of the preserved sources, we refer to EE2 as the first English edition (see the Etude in C major No. 1).
EE2 generally reproduces the text of FE1, however, a few mistakes and inaccuracies were committed, e.g.: omitting staccato dots in bars 5-6, the accent in bars 7, 32 and 72, the cresc. indication in bar 29, 
in bar 35, 
in bar 56, the tie sustaining d
2 in bars 72-73, accents in the L.H. in bars 73-74. The aforementioned defects, at the same time being generally compliant with the base text, question the authenticity of the information included on the title page – "New & revised edition" suggests at least a review of the text's correctness or even introduction of some changes improving the readability (this evaluation is not changed by minor formal additions of pedalling). This contradiction may be, according to us, explained in the following way:
- The information quoted on the cover in fact concerns EE3, which actually includes both corrections of errors of EE2 and certain arbitrary additions.
- The editor, at the time of preparing the new corrected impression (EE3), still had to his disposal some copies of EE2. Due to the fact that he did not want to forgo their sales, he introduced to them the most significant corrections by hand and offered them to his clients with a changed title page. Such corrections, probably written in quill pen and overriding almost all aforementioned engraver's oversights, are visible in the copy of EE2 being at display in mUltimate Chopin (the second known copy, from the collection of the British Library, does not include this kind of annotations in this Etude).
If the above proves to be right, the presented copy would date back to the preparation stage of EE3, hence 1835-1836.
The fingering added by Fontana includes additions to Chopin's fingering (in 27 bars in total), generally stemming from Chopin's indications, yet sometimes disputable, see the remark concerning bars 1-10.
The pencilled annotations visible in the presented copy are of no source value.
| Original in: | Royal Academy of Music, London |
| Shelf-mark: | 4 Chopin 10 (1) |