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 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:
- removing the erroneous
before e
2 in bar 11; - adding the accidentals overlooked by Chopin –
in bar 39, 53, 79, 105, in bar 127, 
in bar 156, 236, 281.
However, some mistakes of the base text were left uncorrected, e.g. the overlooked before a in bar 138 or the before g
in bar 175, appearing too late.
FE1 own mistakes include:
- overlooking a staccato dot in bar 20, wedges in bar 147, 188-189, 216,
- beginning the slur in bar 151 2 quavers later,
- omitting two slurs in bars 168-170, a slur in bar 236, two ties in bars 319-320,
- omitting energico in bar 172,
- overlooking an accent in bar 179,
- overlooking a
in bar 270.
The FE1 revisions concern mainly articulation, including slurs, and accidentals, e.g.:
- changing wedges to staccato dots in bar 56, 333-334,
- adding a L.H. slur in bar 57 & 61 and 384,
- shortening the accents in bars 78-79, 249-253, extending the accents in bar 218,
- removing the unnecessarily repeated before f1 in bar 115,
- changing, generally subtly, the range of dynamic hairpins, e.g. in bars 129-130,
- adding a restoring B1 in bar 304,
- adding a cautionary before f2 in bar 323.
As far as the minor changes regarding slurs, and particularly the range of dynamic hairpins, are concerned, one can assume both revision and the engraver's inaccuracy.
| Original in: | Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris |
| Shelf-mark: | Vm12 5565 |