GC - Gutmann's Copy
| Date: | ⇒VI 1837 |
| Title: | 3me Etude |
| Dedication: | Mme la Csse d'Agoult |
Copy performed by Adolf Gutmann, Chopin's pupil and copyist of a number of his works. It served as base text for the first German edition of the Etude. GC was based on the lost autograph, [A], probably used then as the basis for FE or EE. The dating of the manuscript is based on the letter of Heinrich Probst to the Breitkopf & Härtel company, stating the fact of sending manuscripts of the entire Op. 25 to the Leipzig editor. (see the characteristics of A of the Etude in A
major, No. 1).
GC bears traces of at least a double review by Chopin, who introduced a number of additions and corrections:
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he added pedalling in the entire Etude. In a few places one can see Chopin's doubts concerning the method of marking repeating analogous places (the introduced and then crossed out markings in bars 5, 33, 35-36 and 47-48), in other places Chopin deleted changes of pedal between some of the figures based on one chord (bars 4, 18, 20-22, 57 and 64). At the same time, he committed patent or highly likely mistakes – e.g., overseeing
at the end of bars 20 and 22 or leaving the change of pedal on the 3rd beat in bar 24; - he introduced a number of other additions and corrections, e.g., he corrected e to f in bar 16, he added naturals in bar 62.
It proves quite a thorough review of the manuscript by the composer.
On the other hand, GC includes different kind of errors and inaccuracies, among others:
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oversights of various elements, as, e.g.,
signs in bars 17 and 19, staccato dots in bars 62-63; - reproduction of Chopin wedges as dots in the final section of the Etude (from bar 49);
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unnecessarily repeated
signs in bar 56; - inaccurate, often too far reaching slurs, e.g., in bar 70.
| Original in: | Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | Mus 217 |
