A - Autograph
| Date: | (IX-X) 1835 |
| Title: | 4 Mazurkas || Nro 2 |
| Dedication: | Monsieur le Comte de Perthuis |
The autograph of the Mazurkas Op. 24 was almost certainly written later than the presentation autograph of the third of them (Mazurka in A flat major – AI), dated 22 Sept.1835, containing the still non-final version of the work. On the other hand, by mid-December that year the entire work was already printed, first in Leipzig and then in Paris. It seems, therefore, that A must have been ready not later than the beginning of November.
On the one hand, the manuscript bears traces of great care took by Chopin to polish up the details, both with regard to pitch and rhythm (e.g. in bar 7 and analog. or in bar 57), and to performance markings (bar 1 or bar 47 and 51). On the other hand, haste is also visible, mainly in imprecisely written slurs (e.g. in bars 4-5), and hooked bottom ends of note stems, bar lines, naturals, etc. (e.g. in bar 15 or bar 89).
A served as the base text for Breitkopf & Härtel to prepare GE1. The manuscript contains typical additions in crayon (inscriptions at the beginning of the work) and in pencil (numbers denoting the planned division of the musical text into pages and systems).
| Original in: | Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | Mus. 216 |
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