EE4 - Revised impression of EE3


Publisher: Wessel & Co.
Date: 1858
Title: Douze Grandes Etudes || No. I
Dedication: F. Liszt et F. Hiller

Much later impression of EE3, in which the text was subject to a quite general review, introducing, among others, a few arbitrary changes and additions:

  • accidentals were added in bars 7, 12, 33, 36, 55, 66, 71, 73 and 75, which actually did not significantly influence the text's readability, yet its correctness profited from it;  
  • the accents omitted in bars 38 and 40 were added, as well as fermata in bar 79;
  • pedal change marks at the transition between bars 51 and 52 and in bar 60 were added; pedalling in bar 72 was completed.

Some of the changes were probably introduced on the basis of the comparison with GE3 – it is proved by, among others, repetition of the error in the notation of rests in bar 45 and inconsistent notation of fermata in bar 79. 

Original in: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
Shelf-mark: S.H. Chopin 40