GC - Gutmann's Copy
| Date: | ⇒VI 1837 |
| Title: | 10me 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 probably the basis for GC, 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 review, performed at least twice by Chopin, who introduced numerous corrections and additions:
- he added the metronome tempo in bars 1 and 31 (in pencil, most probably in the last phase of reviewing all Etudes);
- also in pencil, hence in the last stage of corrections, he added rit. in bars 45 and 65 and tempo primo in bar 104;
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he replaced the
signs with accents in bars 3-4 and 21; -
he deleted
in bar 23; - he corrected slurs, e.g., in bars 55-57;
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he added a d
2 grace note in bars 47 and 67; - he introduced a number of other additions and corrections, e.g., change of indications and correction of the crotchet in the L.H. in bar 31 or deletions of dynamic hairpins in bars 33-34.
On the other hand, GC includes different kind of errors and inaccuracies, among others:
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oversights of various elements, as, e.g., the F crotchet in bar 108 or the tie combining d and e in bar 76;
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the erroneous E-e instead of F-f at the end of bar 10 or g instead of f in bar 25;
- inaccurate or erroneous slurs, e.g., in bars 74-77 and 104;
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numerous oversights of accidentals – in the majority of the cases probably repeated after [A] – e.g., sharps in bars 13, 19, 28, 35 or the
lowering F to F in bar 23.
In this Etude we consider GC to be the basic source.
| Original in: | Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | Mus 217 |
