FE1 - First French edition
| Publisher: | Maurice Schlesinger |
| Date: | VI 1833 |
| Title: | Etudes || No. 5 |
| Dedication: | son Ami J. Liszt |
First French edition, based on A. The comparison with the autograph, as well as visible traces of corrections reveal a number of more or less probable changes performed in print. Some of them were included in GE1, some not, which indicates the existence of at least two stages of proofreading of FE1 (probably even three – see the Etude in C major No. 1). Chopin's participation in all stages of proofreading and their broad range is revealed by the preserved correspondence between Schlesinger and Kistner, and their palpable proof is constituted by FEcor (in the Etude in A minor No. 2). Example of changes performed at particular stages of proofreading:
- 1. Changes included in GE1 – all mentioned in the characteristics of A corrections of original versions, additions of pedalling, articulation and dynamics, as well as, e.g., change of the fingering in bar 41.
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2. Changes not included in GE1 – e.g., change of
to 
in bar 45, c1 to d1 in the chord in bar 47.
Apart from the above illustrated changes and additions, being undoubtedly a result of Chopin's intervention, in FE1 this kind of differences appear with regard to A, whose qualification as authentic corrections is unclear or even dubious. Above all, it concerns the omitted, and sometimes also changed, performance indications, as, e.g., the slurs at the end of bars 24-25, fingering in bars 25 and 27, 
in bar 32 or accents in bars 55-56 and 66. We analyse each of this kind of places individually, in order to, on the one hand, respect the possible latest intention of Chopin and, on the other hand, not to deny the performer valuable authentic indications, which could have been omitted by accident.
FE1 is also not free – in spite of a few stages of proofreading – from clear errors, e.g., the 5th semiquaver in bar 31, a fingering digit in bar 40.
| Original in: | Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris |
| Shelf-mark: | Ac.p. 2725 |