GE2 - Second German edition
| Publisher: | Breitkopf & Härtel |
| Date: | ca 1855 |
| Title: | Douze Etudes || Étude III |
| Dedication: | Madame la Comtesse d'Agoult |
While performing a new typesetting of the Etudes, Op. 25, the Breitkopf & Härtel company introduced numerous changes into the score:
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a few mistakes and flaws of GE1 (→GE2) were corrected – the
in bar 22 was removed, added in bar 58; - c was changed to d in bar 51;
- completion of accidentals was finished, e.g., in bars 43 and 45;
- pedalling was modified, e.g., the change of pedal on the 2nd beat in bars 19 and 24 was removed;
- range of dynamic hairpins was changed, often slightly;
- slurs were changed, e.g., in bars 66-68 and 70.
GE2 was published with two graphic variants of the cover, identical from the point of view of content. The copy presented in mUltimate Chopin features a cover in the later version, used also in GE3. Particular Etudes were also published separately, provided with a collective cover including 12 etudes each by Chopin, Henselt and Thalberg.
| Original in: | Biblioteka Narodowego Instytutu Fryderyka Chopina, Warszawa |
| Shelf-mark: | 1092/n |