GE2 - Second German edition


Publisher: Fr. Kistner
Date: 1841⇒
Title: Douze Grandes Etudes || No. 4
Dedication: SON AMI F. LISZT

Second German edition in which the text of GE1 was subject to a quite detailed revision:

  • the necessary accidentals were added, e.g.,  of c2 in bar 50, the superfluous were also removed, e.g.,  of c3 in bar 74;
  • a number of cautionary marks was added – e.g.,  before b2 in bars 11 and 61;
  • dynamic hairpins or accents were moved, their size was also changed, e.g., in bars 39, 53;
  • slurring was changed, e.g., a slur was added in the L.H. in bar 5, while the one in bars 69-70 was shortened.

GE2 is not free from common mistakes, such as an oversight of the fingering numeral in the L.H. in bar 43.

Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw
Shelf-mark: 1931/n