A - Autograph
| Date: | IX 1832-III 1833 |
| Title: | Etude Nro 8 |
| Dedication: | None |
Fair score intended as Stichvorlage for the first French edition. It creates an integral part with the autographs of subsequent Etudes in F minor, No. 9 and A
major, No. 10. At the moment of its creation, it probably constituted a part of a joint autograph, including six subsequent Etudes, from No. 7 onwards – see the characteristics of A of the Etude in C major, No. 7, where the issue of dating of this manuscript is also briefly discussed.
In A one can see numerous engraver's marks, determining the division into pages and great staves of FE1.
A includes quite a significant number of corrections, in which the removed elements are generally carefully erased, e.g., in bars 2, 4-8, 12. However, there are also deletions, e.g., in bars 13 or 44. In spite of these changes, some details remained in a non-final form, which Chopin then changed in a proofreading of FE, e.g., the chord in the L.H. in bar 12, triad at the beginning of bar 47, chords in the R.H. in bars 94-95.
Chopin provided the Etude with numerous and detailed performance indications, as, e.g., dynamic marks, staccato, slurs, accents. However, their notation is not always precise, which can be seen on the example of slurs in bars 2-6, 34-35. At the beginning and at the end of the Etude we will find relatively precise fingering indications, yet the pedalling is marked only in three places (bars 5, 15 and 71), always in relation to the broad position of the L.H. The 
mark appears only in bar 5. The indicated inaccuracies seem to reveal haste at the time of writing, which is visible also in the presence of characteristic "hooks" at the bottom of the stems or naturals (cf. the characteristics of the autograph of the Mazurka in C major, Op. 24 No. 2).
The most significant mistakes of A are related to the notation of accidentals (e.g., in bars 43, 59-60, 79-80). In bar 93 there is undoubtedly an erroneous fingering digit.
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | M/195 |
