CLI - Copy by Linowski
| Date: | 2 XI 1830 |
| Title: | Exercice 2. |
| Dedication: | None |
Copy of the original version of the Etude (together with the Etude in C major), probably performed by Józef Linowski, dated "2 November 1830" and titled Exercice 2. (The Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw). CLI includes a few mechanical pitch mistakes which Chopin could not have committed (f2-a2 as a double note under the 9th semiquaver in bar 6, A as bass note on the 3rd beat of bar 7; also in the Etude in C major), which excludes the given in many publications possibility that it is an autograph. The issue was finally solved thanks to a graphological analysis performed in 1990. CLI also includes other errors and defects, as the omitted octave sign in bar 15 and unfinished one in bar 28, lack of ties sustaining octaves in bars 33-34 and 47-49, superfluous semiquaver flags in bar 43.
CLI allows for a significant reconstruction of the original version of the Etude, written in probably the only autograph used for the work's publication, [AI]. It differs from the final version in an almost total lack of performance indications (only two slurs in bars 30-31), slightly differently led line of figurations in bars 28 and 29, numerous harmonic details (e.g. f
instead of f in bar 4 and analog., b(1) instead of b
(1) in the 1st half of bars 17 and 44, part of the L.H. in the 1st half of bar 19 and in bar 29) and more schematically led lower voice of the R.H. (e.g. additional notes in bars 15, 19-26, 31, 42-43 and 45).
In CLI one can observe two types of corrections. Diligent and clear ones, such as, e.g., in bar 7 (the 1st note in the R.H.) or bar 49 (deleted erroneous note on the lower stave), were almost certainly performed by the copyist who corrected the noticed errors himself. However, it is not certain who introduced more delicate corrections (changes?) visible in a few places, e.g., added d1 in bar 45 and deleted f2 and added d2 in bar 46. In the first moment, the assumption that it could have been Chopin seems to be highly unlikely, yet if we take into consideration numerous corrected errors, Chopin could have however written only a few most recent changes without reviewing the entire piece.
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | M/191 |
