GE1 - First German edition
| Publisher: | Charles Haslinger quondam Tobie |
| Date: | VII 1851 |
| Plate number: | T.H.8147. |
| Title: | Grande Sonate |
| Dedication: | Monsieur Joseph Elsner |
First German edition, based on A. Numerous revisions were made here, with the addition of accidentals and also – fewer in number – signs of articulation and dynamics. Some alterations go beyond the typical scope of editorial revision (e.g. mvt. IV, bars 7 & analog., 103), but none of them can be authentic, since Chopin – as he clearly stated in a letter written in 1845 – did not correct the proofs sent to him a few years earlier, and the fact that the work was not published until after his death shows that he did not change his mind after writing that letter.
| Original in: | Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | A.1 |