A - Autograph
| Date: | IX 1832-II 1833 |
| Title: | Etude Nro 5 |
| Dedication: | None |
Fair score dedicated for base text for the first French edition. It creates one whole with the autograph of the subsequent Etude in E
minor, No. 6. At the moment of its creation, it could have been a part of a joint autograph, including four subsequent Etudes beginning from No. 3 – see the characteristics of A of the Etude in E major, No. 3, where also the issue of this manuscript's dating is briefly discussed.
In A there are visible engraver's signs, determining the division into pages and great staves of FE1.
A includes many revisions, in which the deleted elements are generally carefully erased, e.g., in bars 15, 19, 22, 44 or 55. There are also deletions, e.g., in bar 34, after bar 54, in bars 83-84 and even simplified revisions, in which the new version is written on or next to the old one, e.g., in bars 1, 12, 83. In spite of these changes, certain details remained in a non-final form, which Chopin then changed in a proofreading of FE, e.g., the chords in the L.H. in bar 2 and analog., 22, 32, 34-35, 38-39, 62, rhythm in the L.H. in bars 41 and 43, rhythm in the R.H. in bar 65.
The performance indications in A are irregularly arranged – there are far more indications on the 2nd and 4th pages of the manuscript. The attention is drawn to a detailed fingering, added then in FE only to a moderate extent. In turn, there are not many pedal marks, which are present only in two places (bars 33-40 and 63-66). Chopin significantly added and revised performance indications, while proofreading FE. Numerous and clear "hooks" at the bottom of the stems or naturals prove haste at the time of writing (cf. the characteristics of the autograph of the Mazurka in C major, Op. 24 No. 2).
A is not free from errors, e.g., too long rhythmic values in bars 4 and 12 and 8, e3 instead of g3 in bars 24 and 72. Rhythmic errors suggest that at the time of writing A, Chopin had in front of him the working notation of the Etude written in two-time longer rhythmic values in 
(which was initially present also in A).
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | M/193 |
