EE2 - Corrected reprint of EE1
| Publisher: | Wessel & Co. |
| Date: | ⇒1840 |
| Title: | Douze Etudes || No. 14 |
| Dedication: | None |
Among the changes introduced in EE2 one can mention:
- correction of the mistake in bar 8;
-
addition of the overlooked accidentals, e.g., the
returning b
1 in bar 25 and both in bar 56.
Apart from the above changes of a rather ordering character, there are also some completely arbitrary additions, not following from the existing notation:
- abundant fingering was added in bars 1-9, 11-15, 43-44 and 47, in many places contrary to the Chopin one;
- leggiero e poco ritard. indication was added in bar 62.
The copy presented in mUltimate Chopin comes from a later impression (1843), in which the individual title page was replaced with the cover of the Wessel & Co's Complete Collection of the Compositions of Frederic Chopin series. EE2 was then reprinted with further versions of this collective cover (completed with next Chopin pieces published by Wessel) until ca. 1858, when certain modifications were performed in the note text (see the characteristics of EE3). EE2 also includes copies of this Etude published separately. All versions of EE2 with a collective cover, as well as those published separately, are devoid of the authentic dedication.
| Original in: | Royal Academy of Music, Library, London |
| Shelf-mark: | 4 Chopin 10 (3) |