EE1 - First English edition
Publisher: | Wessel & Co. |
Date: | XI 1837 |
Plate number: | W & Co. No 2170. |
Title: | Souvenir de la Pologne. Quatre Mazurkas |
Dedication: | Madame la Princesse de Wurtemberg née Princesse Czartoryska |
EE1 reproduces the text of FE with minimal changes. Chopin did not participate in its preparation. A few defects were corrected:
- the incomplete slurs between bars 25-26 were completed,
- the missing flats to c(1) in bar 36 were added,
- the erroneous quaver was changed to a semiquaver in bar 59.
The unnecessary cautionary to g1 in bar 86 was also removed.
By contrast, the attention is drawn to a patent mistake in bar 57, in which the literally interpreted 2nd and 3rd crotchets in the L.H. are g-b-e1 instead of g-b-e1.
Moreover, as was the case with other opuses of Mazurkas, the authentic title was preceded by the arbitrary phrase Souvenir de la Pologne.
Original in: | New York Public Library, Music Division |
Shelf-mark: | Mus. Res. *MYD Chopin |