A - Autograph
| Date: | IX 1832-III 1833 |
| Title: | Nro 9 |
| Dedication: | None |
Fair score intended as Stichvorlage for the first French edition. It created an integral part with the autograph of the adjacent Etudes in F major, No. 8 and in A
major, No. 10. At the moment of its creation, it probably constituted a part of a joint autograph, including six subsequent Etudes, from No. 7 onwards – see the characteristics of A of the Etude in C major, No. 7, where the issue of dating of this manuscript is also briefly discussed.
In A one can see numerous engraver's marks, determining the division into pages and great staves of FE1.
A includes quite a significant number of corrections, in which the removed elements are generally carefully erased, e.g., in bars 3, 11, 33-34, 50, 65. Deletions are present only in the heading of the Etude – change of the number from 8 to 9 and the tempo indication from Presto to Allegro. In spite of these changes, some details remained in a non-final form, which Chopin then changed in a proofreading of FE, e.g., the mordents in bars 2-7, 38-39 and 42.
Chopin provided the Etude with numerous and detailed performance indications. However, their notation is not always precise, which can be seen on the example of slurs (bars 2-4, 6-8, 14-16, 20-22 and others) or staccato marks (e.g., bars 7, 10-11). It can indicate haste at the time of writing, which is visible also in the presence of characteristic "hooks" at the bottom of the stems or naturals (cf. the characteristics of the autograph of the Mazurka in C major, Op. 24 No. 2).
A is not free from errors, e.g., f instead of a in bar 8.
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | M/196 |
