GE2 - Second German edition


Publisher: Fr. Kistner
Date: 1841⇒
Title: Douze Grandes Etudes || No. 11
Dedication: SON AMI F. LISZT

Second German edition in which the text of GE1 was subject to a quite detailed review:

  • a part of the mistakes was corrected, e.g., the necessary accidentals were added (e.g. flats at the end of bar 24, naturals in bar 40), inaccuracies were corrected, e.g., in the slurring in bars 6-7 and 15-16,  marks were added in bars 32, 34 and 53; 
  • cautionary accidentals were reviewed, e.g., a  was added before c1 in bar 18d1 in bar 20, g2 in bar 31 or d2 in bars 45 and 47, yet there are also some errors, e.g., a  before e3 in bar 46 was added only before the 2nd quaver;
  • a number of minor, often inaccurate changes, was introduced, e.g., the hairpins in bar 22 were extended, the  mark in bar 25 was removed, and moved in bar 26,  was moved in bar 26.
Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw
Shelf-mark: 1932/n