GE2 - Second German edition


Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel
Date: 1852⇒
Plate number: 6419
Title: Valse
Dedication: None
Second German edition, Breitkopf & Härtel (6419), after 1852, in which a part of the errors was corrected, among others:
- open fifths in bar 38
- continuation of the slur at the transition between bars 76-77
- Chopin overishgts in corrections of analogous places, e.g. bar 81bar 182
- incorrect pitch, e.g. bar 86
- revisions of the slurring in bars 92-95
- lack of the tie in bars 141-142
- Terzverschreibung error in bar 170 and bar 196
In addition, a number of arbitrary revisions was introduced:
- slurring in bars 1-888892
- changes of chords in bar 91bar 235
- deletion of notes in chords, often in order to homogenise them with analogous bars, e.g. bar 149
- placing performance indications and marks, e.g. leggiero in bar 165.
 
Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw
Shelf-mark: 332/n