AR - Autograph Rotschild
| Date: | 1841-1842 (?) |
| Title: | Valse |
| Dedication: | none |
Autograph from the Rotschild family's legacy. Contrary to the remaining preserved autographs, there is no dedication, the composer's signature or dating. In this autograph, the Waltz begins without upbeat, which may mean that it was the earliest version. The last three bars are written on an extended - added - last stave.
The manuscript is provided with a genre marking: Valse. Additionally, there are two inscriptions written by a foreign hand, in pencil: on the top of the leaf, Valse. Oeuvres Posthumes op. 70, no 2. and in the bottom right-hand corner, Chopin. On the reverse side, an unidentified melody written in pencil - piano exercise (?).
The actual note text is written in a very legible manner, there are no corrections or crossings-out. However, there are a few additions of undetermined origin performed in pencil: an f1 grace note - bar 1; an e
1 minim in the 2nd voice on the 1st beat in the R.H. - 1st volta (there is an erroneous dotted minim, much like in PE, FEF and GEF); arpeggio on the 3rd beat in the R.H. - 1 volta; a curved line beginning from the 1st volta - most probably concerning the aforementioned grace note that should be performed in the repetition (like in AO). Moreover, the ornament markings are written ambiguously (they mostly apply to the differentiation between a mordent and a trill). The slurs seem to have been written in haste, as a result of which they are imprecise (e.g. a shifted slur after the 2nd volta or short slurs - dashes in bars 23, 25).
| Original in: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris |
| Shelf-mark: | MS. 110 |
