



EE1 - First English edition
Publisher: | Robert Cocks & Co |
Date: | 21 V 1851 |
Plate number: | 9727 |
Title: | Sonata |
Dedication: | None |
First English edition, based on a GE1 copy without the last retouches (see mov. IV, bar 225). The text of the basis was developed by Brinley Richards (adding, among others, abundant fingering). Nevertheless, EE1 contains a significant number of inaccuracies and mistakes, the most critical occurring in bars 9-10, in which in the L.H. part the text of bars 8-9 was printed by mistake, which impedes the reproduction of the correct text. Moreover, the following were omitted, e.g.:
- slurs in bar 3 and 76;
- signs ('segno') in bar 6, indicating the beginning of the repeated fragment of the Minuet;
in bar 7 and 8,
in bar 8;
- staccato marks in bar 12 and 17;
- accents in bar 19 and 21, as well as 66;
hairpins in bars 9-10 and 49-51;
- tie to f1 in bars 71-72.
The metronome marking erroneously reads 80 instead of 60. At the beginning of the bottom stave in bar 25 a bass clef was printed by mistake (in place of a treble clef). The omission (by Chopin) of the to a1 in bar 28 was left uncorrected as well.
The revisions introduced by EE1 include:
- adding a
asterisk in bar 13;
- omitting the staccato dot at the beginning of bar 77 (unless it is an oversight).
Original in: | University Library, Cambridge |
Shelf-mark: | Mus. 2.22.(24) |