GE1 - First German edition
| Publisher: | Breitkopf & Härtel |
| Date: | XII 1835 |
| Plate number: | 5647 |
| Title: | 4 Mazurkas || N. I. | Masurka |
| Dedication: | Monsieur le Comte de Perthuis |
GE1 is based on A and may have been perfunctorily reviewed by Chopin. This Mazurka bears no traces of any corrections made by the composer, although some additions – e.g. 
in bar 58 – may have come from him. Almost all the differences in relation to the base text have the nature of minor inaccuracies, either accidental or resulting from certain general assumptions related to notation (see below). There are copies with different covers or printed with a different printing technique. GE1 served as the base text for the first French edition.
Characteristic features of GE1 in all the Mazurkas Op 24 include:
- lack of differentiation between various types of staccato signs – only dots were used, despite the fact that A had both dots and wedges (cf. e.g. bars 17 and 25);
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mechanical adjustment of the position of signs or their essential fragments (beginnings and endings of slurs and hairpins) to the closest notes, sometimes clearly against the notation of the base text, e.g. in bars 1-2 and analogous bars (particularly in bar 9) or a slur in bars 32-33.
| Original in: | Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | 666/n |
