GE4 - Fourth German edition


Publisher: Fr. Kistner
Date: 1865⇒
Title: Douze Grandes Etudes || No. 12
Dedication: SON AMI F. LISZT

In the fourth German edition, next to the until then published form of a book with six pieces, particular Etudes were also published as single works, as a result of which each of them received an additional plate number between 2961 and 2972 and the second independent pagination. In the case of the 2nd book, including the Etudes No. 7-12, the plates used for the production of GE3 were employed, hence it is actually its changed later impression.

We have not found any differences in the score of GE4. However, in the presented copy one can see numerous traces of the plates' wear in the form of indistinctly copied fragments of signs, as, e.g., slur endings. In bar 40 this type of defect concerns, as it seems, one of the fingering digits ('1' under the 2nd semiquaver is indiscernible).  

Original in: Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw
Shelf-mark: None