GE2 - Second German edition


Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel
Date: ca 1855
Title: Douze Etudes || Étude IX
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 note text:

  • the overlooked in GE1 a note and accent in bar 8 were added;
  • range of the dynamic hairpins was changed, often slightly, e.g., in bars 15-17;
  • notation of accidentals was ordered, by completing the missing ones, e.g., in bars 9-10 and 12-13, by adding a number of cautionary accidentals, e.g., in bars 12 and 33, as well as by deleting the superfluous flats in bar 43;
  • notation of bar 32 was corrected, by moving the  sign and introducing ;
  •  in bar 37 was moved;
  • the distorted tie sustaining d in bars 37-38 was corrected.

In GE2 particular Etudes were published also separately, provided with a collective cover, on which 12 etudes each by Chopin, Henselt and Thalberg were itemised.

Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw
Shelf-mark: 814/n