FE3 - Corrected impression of FE2
| Publisher: | E. Troupenas & Co. |
| Date: | 1841 |
| Plate number: | T. 925 |
| Title: | Ballada op. 38 |
| Dedication: | Robert Schumann |
The last impression of FE to include changes in the music. It was completed with the missing accidentals; moreover, a number of corrections resulting from the renewed comparison with A, e.g. addition of the overlooked ties in bars 116 and 122. Some of the supplements were introduced in passages previously corrected most probably by Chopin, e.g. the reintroduction of ties to the B
1-B octave in bars 111-112. This can be regarded as a clue that Chopin was not proofreading FE3. If we believe Julian Fontana's statement in a letter to Ludwika Jędrzejewicz, the proofreader-reviser could have been Fontana himself: "In 1839 and [18]40 when he [Chopin] was in Spain, he asked me to edit all the compositions from that period, sending manuscripts which I have kept in their entirety since then. So I edited his [...] Second Ballade[...]*.
A few other, probably arbitrary changes were also introduced, e.g. a tie in bar 93.
Chopin most probably did not participate in the proofreading of FE3.
* Letter from 2 July 1852, translated by Robert Kirkland. Autograph in the Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw, call number M-330. In the cited fragment one can notice certain inaccuracies resulting probably from a dozen years that have elapsed between the described events and the writing of the letter:
– Chopin was in Spain (Majorca) in 1838-1839, and not 1839-1840;
– it seems unlikely that while writing the letter Fontana could have had at his disposal those autographs which were used as Stichvorlage for the first editions, as e.g. A of the Ballade.
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music |
| Shelf-mark: | 648 Cim |
