FE1 - First French edition


Publisher: E. Troupenas et Cie
Date: V 1840
Plate number: T. 891
Title: Sonate || Scherzo
Dedication: None

The first known impression of FE whose copy was deposited by the editor in the Library of the Conservatoire de Paris as an obligatory deposit. No title page and a significant number of mistakes (several dozen – cf. the 1st mov.) suggest it was one of the trial copies, still before proofreadings. In this movement the most serious mistakes include:

  • instead of b in bar 34;
  • e1 instead of f1 in the 2nd quaver in bar 39;
  • no B on the 3rd beat in bar 90;
  • erroneous  in the last chord in the L.H. in bar 111;
  • C instead of D in bar 137;
  • no indications of trills in bar 178 and 180;
  • a1 instead of b1 in the 2nd chord in bar 179;
  • f1 instead of d1 in the 5th chord in bar 194;
  • octave instead of sixth at the beginning of bar 198;
  • c instead of B in the last chord in bar 254;
  • no C at the beginning of bar 264.

FE1 was based on the same autograph by Chopin, which previously was the basis of GC.

Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Shelf-mark: Ac. p. 2683