EE2 - Second impression of [EE1]
| Publisher: | Wessel & Co. |
| Date: | 1835-1836 |
| Title: | Douze Grandes Etudes || No. II |
| Dedication: | ses amis J. Liszt et Ferd. Hiller |
The second impression of [EE1], the first English edition of August 1833 (the copy of [EE1] is still to be found). In EE2 the entire Opus 10 is divided into two books, six Etudes each, yet apart from this fact it generally reproduces the text of FE1. The attention is drawn to a significant number of omitted signs (accidentals, dynamic marks) and other errors, which allows to assume that, except for the fingering added by Fontana, the text of EE2 does not differ from the one of [EE1]. In this situation, the statements on the title page suggesting introduction of significant changes are puzzling: "New & revised edition" and "edited with additional fingering by his pupil, I. Fontana".
The aforementioned mistakes of EE2 include:
- lack of naturals returning d1 in bars 4 and 12, a1 and d2 in bar 13, e2 in bar 17, f2 and d2 in bars 19, d2 in bar 45, a2 and d3 in bar 46;
-
omitting the
hairpins in bars 33-34, accents in bars 39, 44 and 49; - omitting the slur in the L.H. in bars 39 and 44;
- E instead of C at the beginning of bar 20.
Fingering additions performed by Fontana are limited to copying Chopin's fingering in these eight bars of the first section of the Etude, in which, due to the repetitions of analogous fragments, the composer omitted it.
The copy of EE2 presented in mUltimate Chopin includes handwritten annotations (probably in quill pen), correcting a number of the aforementioned oversights of the engraver. Similar annotations, although less numerous, are also visible in the second known copy (from the collection of the British Library). It could indicate the editor's intervention, who, in this simplified manner, took care of higher correctness of the already printed copies.
A few pencilled annotations visible in the presented copy do not have any source value.
| Original in: | Royal Academy of Music, London |
| Shelf-mark: | 4 Chopin 10 (1) |