A - Autograph
| Date: | IX 1832-III 1833 |
| Title: | Nro 11 |
| Dedication: | None |
Fair score dedicated for base text for the first French edition. It creates one whole with the autograph of the following Etude in C minor, No. 12. At the moment of its creation, it could have been a part of a joint autograph, including six consecutive Etudes, from No. 7 – see the characteristics of A of the Etude in C major, No. 7, where also the issue of this manuscript's dating is briefly discussed.
Contrary to the previous Etudes, the engraver's signs are very poorly visible in A. It could have been related to, e.g., conservation measures, it is also possible that in a particular stage of the manuscript's history, there was an attempt to remove these signs. We consider, e.g., the digits written in pencil over bars 3-7 and 11-15, visible in the photographs (facilitating the orientation in Chopin's abbreviated notation), and the diagonal cross at the end of bar 15, probably determining the end of the 1st page, to be the engraver's signs.
A contains a quite significant number of corrections, in which the elements are generally carefully erased, e.g., in bars 5-6 or 24. However, there are also deletions, e.g., in bar 49. Despite these changes, certain details remained in a non-final shape, which Chopin then changed in a proofreading of FE, e.g., lower notes of the chords on the 3rd quaver in bars 22 and 37-38, upper note of the chord at the beginning of bar 32, inner note of the chords in bars 36 and 48-49, dynamic indications in bar 52.
Chopin provided the Etude with numerous and detailed performance indications. However, their notation is not always precise, which can be seen on the example of slurs (bars 40-43), pedalling (bar 33) or arpeggios (omitted marks in bars 36-43). It may indicate haste at the time of writing, visible also in the presence of characteristic "hooks" at the bottom of note stems or naturals (cf. the characteristics of the autograph of the Mazurka in C major, Op. 24 No. 2).
| Original in: | Stiftelsen Musikkulturens Främjande, the Nydahl Collection, Stockholm |
| Shelf-mark: | MMS 399 |
