EE2 - First English edition
| Publisher: | Wessel & Co. |
| Date: | 1835-1836 |
| Title: | Douze Grandes Etudes || No. IV |
| Dedication: | ses amis J. Liszt et Ferd. Hiller |
In the first English edition the entire Opus 10 is divided into two books, six Etudes each, while EE2 is the earliest known impression of the 1st book. As it is uncertain whether the text of the previous impressions differed from the text of the presented copy, on the basis of the current state of the preserved sources, we refer to EE2 as the first English edition (see the Etude in C major No. 1).
EE2 generally reproduces the text of FE1, however, a few mistakes and inaccuracies were committed, e.g.: it overlooks, e.g., the pedalling (completely – see bars 42-45), wedges in bar 44, 
in bar 54. In this Etude a few positive changes were also introduced: the erroneous second in bar 32 was corrected, as well as the erroneous bottom notes of the chords in bar 69; the slur in bar 42 was completed. It remains open whether these not so numerous corrections (concerning only chosen aspects of notation) justify the fact of calling EE2 "New & revised edition," as the title page reads. According to us, there is a more plausible explanation in this case:
- The information quoted on the cover in fact concerns EE3, which actually includes both corrections of errors of EE2 and certain arbitrary additions.
- The editor, at the time of preparing the new corrected impression (EE3), still had to his disposal some copies of EE2. Due to the fact that he did not want to forgo their sales, he introduced to them the most significant corrections by hand and offered them to his clients with a changed title page. Such corrections, probably written in quill pen and overriding almost all aforementioned engraver's oversights, are visible in the copy of EE2 being at display in mUltimate Chopin. The second known copy, from the collection of the British Library, also includes similar annotations, although less numerous.
If the above proves to be right, the presented copy would date back to the preparation stage of EE3, hence 1835-1836.
The fingering added by Fontana is very detailed in some of the fragments (e.g. in bars 1-14), while in a few places it includes alternative suggestions. The attention is drawn to limiting the suggestions almost exclusively to the part of the R.H., to such an extent that in bar 8 even Chopin indications concerning the L.H. were overlooked. In total the additions are in 39 bars, see the note to bars 1-5.
The pencilled annotations visible in the presented copy are of no source value.
| Original in: | Royal Academy of Music, London |
| Shelf-mark: | 4 Chopin 10 (1) |