GC - Gutmann's Copy
| Date: | ⇒VI 1837 |
| Title: | 9me 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 the basis for the first German edition of the Etude. It was a lost autograph, [A], that was the basis for GC, probably used then as the basis for FE or EE. The dating of the manuscript is based on the same premises which were presented in the characteristics of A of the Etude in A
major, No. 1.
GC bears traces of a careful revision performed by Chopin, at least twice, who introduced numerous corrections and additions:
- he added the metronome tempo (in pencil, probably in the last phase of reviewing all Etudes);
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also in pencil, hence in the last stage of corrections, he added a g note in the chord in bar 12;
- he changed vivace to assai in the indication of the tempo;
- he added accents in bars 1-7;
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he changed a to d1 in the chord at the end of bar 4;
- he added a slur and accents in bar 8;
- he added the third accent in bar 36;
- he introduced a different version of the L.H. in bars 37-38;
- he added leggierissimo in bar 41.
On the other hand, GC contains different kind of errors and inaccuracies, e.g., too long 
hairpins in bar 17 or the probably overlooked 
in bar 50, and above all, oversights of accidentals in bars 9, 12, 13 and probably 34, most probably repeated after [A].
In this Etude we consider GC to be the base text.
| Original in: | Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | Mus 217 |
