FE
Main text
AI - Earlier autograph
A - Autograph
CDP - Copy for Delfina Potocka
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected reprint of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected reprint of GE1
GE1b - Flawed impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Revised impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected reprint of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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Title in AI & CDP

Title & dedication in A

Title & dedication in GE1 (→GE1a)

Title & dedication in GE2 (→GE3)

Title & dedication in FE

Title & dedication in EE1 & EE3

Title in EE2

Our suggestion

In the main text we give the title and dedication in accordance with the title page of the entire opus in A (we develop the Mme and Csse abbreviations used in A) and FE. In A (→GE) and FE, the particular etudes are provided with an additional title, Etude, with a corresponding ordinal number, which we represent through the number preceding the score. In EE, the numbering includes 12 Etudes, Op. 10, hence this etude is No. 13.
In GE and EE, the title includes the number of etudes in the entire Op. 25, which could be related to the division of the entire opus into two books, 6 etudes each, performed in these editions. Nothing indicates that Chopin considered this information to be important, although in other opuses including groups of pieces (MazurkasNocturnesPolonaisesPreludesWaltzes), he would generally give the number of pieces.
EE2 omits the dedication, as the individual title page was replaced with a collective one, common for all Chopin pieces published by Wessel; in EE3, the dedication was added above the score on the 1st page.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Dedications, GE revisions, Deletions in A

notation: Verbal indications

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