FE1 - First French edition


Publisher: Maurice Schlesinger
Date: X 1837
Title: Etudes || 4me Étude
Dedication: Madame la Comtesse d'Agoult

FE1, based on A, generally faithfully reproduces the text of the base text. The edition was then corrected by Chopin, who introduced a few changes and additions:

FE1 is not free from more or less obvious errors, out of which the most important ones are the erroneous note in bar 13, overlooked wedges in bars 33-35 (the ones Chopin omitted in A in bars 25-26 and 38 were also not added) and quite numerous inaccuracies adopted from A in the notation of accidentals, e.g.,  missing flats in bars 21-26 or 33 or the missing  returning g1 in bar 46.

In certain cases, missing indications can be explained with an inaccuracy of the engraver or Chopin's proofreading, e.g., legato in bars 9 and 11 or   in bars 35-38.

Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Shelf-mark: Rés. F. 1580