GE1 - First German edition
| Publisher: | Fr. Kistner |
| Date: | VIII 1833 |
| Plate number: | 1019 |
| Title: | Douze Grandes Etudes || No. 10 |
| Dedication: | SON AMI F. LISZT |
First German edition, in which the entire Op. 10 was divided into two books, 6 etudes each. GE1 was based on a review copy of FE, which did not include Chopin's last corrections. It is revealed by the mistakes which are already absent (corrected) in finished FE1, which was reproduced on the basis of a review copy and not corrected in GE1, e.g., in bars 43, 66 (see the characteristics of FE1), as well as numerous situations of this kind in the remaining Etudes.
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).
Changes of GE1 with respect to FE1 are mainly corrections of varied errors (all enumerated in the characteristics of FE1) and inaccuracies, as, e.g., changing the value of the rest in the L.H. in the upbeat, adding 
in bar 16 and completing accidentals (including cautionary), e.g., in bars 2, 5-8, 32, 40. Some of the additions, e.g., the tie sustaining f1 in bars 52-53, are not obvious. There are also errors and failed revisions, e.g., omitting the fingering numerals in bar 1, changes in the arrangement of the accents in bars 5-7, erroneous range of the octave sign in bar 8, adding naturals in bars 23 and 35, adding a dot extending the a
1 minim in bar 76 or omitting a in the final chord.
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 |