FE1 - First French edition
| Publisher: | S. Richault |
| Date: | 26 V 1851 |
| Plate number: | 10 868. R. |
| Title: | Grande Sonate |
| Dedication: | None |
First French edition, based on a copy of GE1 without the final alterations – see 4th mvt., bar 225. In FE1 a number of errors and inaccuracies from the base text were corrected, but new mistakes were made. Some changes and complements were also introduced.
The corrected GE defects include:
- the correct interpretation of the ambiguous slur in bars 4-5,
- adding a
in bar 87, 122, overlooked by Chopin, - correcting the erroneous accidentals in bar 124.
However, some mistakes from the base text were left uncorrected, e.g.:
- the confusing rhythmic notation in bar 96,
- overlooked
to the top note of the penultimate R.H. quaver in bar 164, - overlooked restoring b
1 in bar 245.
FE1 own mistakes include:
in bars The revisions introduced by FE1 concern mainly slurs and accidentals, among others:
- a R.H. slurs was added to bar 18, 72-73
- the slur in bar 41 was extended,
- a cautionary was added to c2 in bar 82,
- g3 was changed to g3 in bar 139,
In the case of the minor changes to slurs and, in particular, to the range of hairpins, one can assume both revisions and the engraver's inaccuracy.
| Original in: | Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris |
| Shelf-mark: | Vm12 5565 |