Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

EE1 is definitely based on a separate hand-written base text. It shows more similarity to GC than to FE, which allows for a conclusion that EE's base text was the lost (Fontana's?) copy of [A1], the first one of the two autographs that Chopin probably made when preparing Scherzo for publication (see also the description of GC).

EE1 contains a number of versions the autenthicity of which we have no grounds to question but which differ from versions found in the remaining sources: uniform rhythm in bars 31, 47 and analog., octave in bar 86 and 428,  ninth chords in bars  210 and 460. In other places such differences boil down to the absence of certain elements of notation, which may also be explained by omissions made by a copyist or engraver, e.g. lack of leggiero in bar 243, cresc. in bars 277-278,  in bars 280-282,  in bars  312 and 348. There are also reverse situations when EE1 contains markings not found in other sources, e.g. staccato dots in bar 2 & analog.,  in bar 18, L.H. slur in bars 280-283, pedalling in 608-610. At least some of them may be editorial additions, such as for instance the ties added in bars 519-521 and 527-529 distorting the musical sense and probably also sharps in bar 440 and naturals in bars 470 and 472.

In the presented copy of the earliest known impression of EE1, above the title on the 1st page of the musical text there is a name of the publishing series, "Les agremens au salon", that contained works by various composers, together with the number (45) assigned to the Scherzo within that series. There are copies of EE1 from later impressions made in the 1840s and 1850s in which the series name and number were removed.