A - Autograph
| Date: | IX 1832-II 1833 |
| Title: | 6eme Etude |
| Dedication: | None |
Fair score dedicated for base text for the first French edition. It creates one whole with the autograph of the previous Etude in G
major, No. 5. 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 numerous 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 2-5, 7-8, 16 or 18. There are also deletions, as the beginning of bar 50, written several times. In spite of these changes, certain details remained in a non-final shape, which Chopin then changed in a proofreading of FE, e.g., the last semiquaver in the L.H. in bars 2 and analog., the R.H. in bar 28, lower voice in the R.H. in the 1st half of bar 34.
There is a number of performance indications in A, although they are often inaccurate, e.g., slurs in the R.H. in bars 2-3 and 49, the L.H. in bar 40. The attention is drawn to the lack of tempo indication.
The fingering, significantly completed in FE, is marked only for a few characteristic grips (see bar 1). There are no pedal marks, undoubtedly due to the specific texture. Numerous and clear "hooks" at the bottom of note stems or naturals reveal 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., overlooked accidentals in bar 15, 19, 46, insufficient number of rhythmic values in the L.H. in bar 22.
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | M/194 |
