FE1 - First French edition
| Publisher: | Maurice Schlesinger |
| Date: | X 1837 |
| Title: | Etudes || 3me Étude |
| Dedication: | Madame la Comtesse d'Agoult |
The base text for FE1 was a manuscript (lost), close to GC in the most important aspects, yet in many details (e.g., slurs in bars 68-70, pedalling in bars 56 and 58, range of dynamic hairpins in bars 64-66, wedges in bar 49 and subsequent) it is clearly independent from it. According to us, it was most probably [A], or possibly its second copy, corrected and completed by Chopin.
FE1 was certainly corrected by Chopin, which is proved by visible traces of this kind of corrections, which could have been ordered only by the composer, e.g., in this Etude change of c to d in bar 51. One can also suspect Chopin's interventions in the case of 
in bar 21, cautionary naturals in bars 61 and 63 or arpeggios in bars 66-68 (this type of indications, absent in GC and EE, could have been, however, added still in the base text to FE).
FE1 lacks numerous necessary accidentals, which almost certainly corresponds to the notation of the base text. For example, in the two-quaver, octave motifs in the R.H. the sign before the top note is generally not repeated (e.g., in bars 20-28, 41-46). The most serious mistake is an e instead of f as the 4th quaver in the L.H. in bar 16 (uncorrected Chopin's mistake in [A]).
| Original in: | Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris |
| Shelf-mark: | Rés. F. 1580 |