GE1 - First German edition
| Publisher: | Fr. Kistner |
| Date: | VIII 1833 |
| Title: | Douze Grandes Etudes || No. 9 |
| Dedication: | SON AMI F. LISZT |
First German edition, in which the entire Op. 10 was divided into two books, 6 etudes each. GE1 was probably based on a review copy of FE, not including Chopin's last corrections, although in the case of this Etude, the editors of mUltimate Chopin did not identify the existence of such corrections.
In the entire Op. 10, numerous additions, above all, of accidentals and changes were introduced at the time of printing GE1; their traces are clearly visible. However, Chopin's participation in the creation of GE1 seems to be highly unlikely due to his relation with the just obtained Parisian editor, as well as due to some evidently erroneous, thus certainly non-authentic changes introduced in this edition (see the Etude in C major, No. 1).
However, a kind of Chopin's influence on the final shape of GE1 cannot be excluded, therefore, the question of authenticity of some of the versions cannot be considered to be conclusively decided. In this Etude the following could be possibly considered as authentic: the change of f to a
in bar 8 and addition of dots in the R.H. in bar 57, which are the only more significant differences between GE1 and FE1 (moreover, only a few accidentals in bars 22, 50 and 52 and 
marks in bars 22 and at the end of the piece were added, in obvious situations).
GE1 also includes mistakes, e.g., d instead of B in bar 27.
Similarly as in the case of the first book of the Etudes (No. 1-6), it is possible that there were copies of GE1 which differed in details of the cover, e.g., with repeated erroneous initial of Liszt's name (J) after FE1. Such copies have not been found yet.
The pencilled pagination visible in the presented copy is most probably much later.
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | 2439/n |