mUltimate Chopin

WN 29, Waltz in E minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description

PE - Polish edition

Polish edition

Joseph Kaufmann, Warsaw, plate number J 159 K:
PE1 – First Polish edition, (⇒=July 1868),
PE2 – Revised impression of PE1, (1870),
PE3 – Corrected impression of PE2, (1871),
PE4 – Revised impression of PE3, (1875),

More »

GE - German edition

German edition

Les Fils de B. Schott, Mainz, plate number 19551:
GE1 ‒ First German edition, July 1868.

More »

Filiation of the sources

             


[A], [CX] – lost manuscripts, autograph and its copy, prepared immediately before publication as a basis for PE1.

Principles behind the main text
of the Waltz in E minor, WN 29

We give the text of PE1, correcting certain and probable errors. We reduce the number of pedal signs, bringing them in line with the density of markings encountered in authentic sources of other Waltzes not prepared by Chopin for print. We introduce—most probably in line with the notation of [A]—repeat signs for the repetition of bars 89-112, written out in notes in the sources (we give these bars a double numbering).