FE1 - First French edition
| Publisher: | Maurice Schlesinger |
| Date: | VI 1833 |
| Title: | Etudes || No. 4 |
| Dedication: | son Ami J. Liszt |
First French edition, based on [A]. Visible traces of corrections performed in print, out of which some were included in GE1, and some not, indicate the existence of at least two stages of proofreading of FE1 (probably even three – see the Etude in C major, No. 1). Chopin's participation in all stages of proofreading and their broad range is revealed by the preserved correspondence between Schlesinger and Kistner, and their palpable proof is constituted by FEcor (in the Etude in A minor, No. 2). Examples of changes performed at particular stages of proofreading:
- 1. Changes included in GE1 – e.g., corrections of chords in the L.H. in bars 3 & 53, 11 & 61, 19-20, changes to the enharmonic script in bar 75.
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2. Changes not included in GE1 – e.g., change of
(g1) to 
(g
1) in bar 68 (possibly), changing last two semiquavers in bar 64, adding a of b1 in bar 68 (possibly), adding a of g2 in bar 75 (probably).
Apart from the above illustrated changes and additions, being undoubtedly a result of Chopin's intervention, in FE1 this kind of differences appears with regard to AI, whose qualification as authentic corrections is unclear or even dubious. Above all, it concerns the overlooked and sometimes also changed performance indications, as e.g. 
in bars 1, 16, 26 and 54, accents in bars 45-46 or slurs in bar 7. We analyse each of this kind of places individually, in order to, on the one hand, respect the possible latest intention of Chopin and, on the other hand, not to deny the performer valuable authentic indications, which could have been omitted by accident.
FE1 is also not free – in spite of a few stages of proofreading – from clear errors, e.g., a before a wrong note in bar 17.
| Original in: | Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris |
| Shelf-mark: | Ac.p. 2725 |