GE1 - First German edition
| Publisher: | Breitkopf & Härtel |
| Date: | X 1837 |
| Title: | Douze Etudes || 10me Etude |
| Dedication: | Madame la Comtesse d'Agoult |
GE1 is based on GC and it generally carefully reproduces the text of the base text. The differences can be generally explained with an inaccuracy or manner of the engraver, e.g.:
-
instead of 
in bar 1 and 104; - connection of slurs in bars 4-5 and 12-13, 103-104, erroneous slurs in bars 95-97 and 116-118;
- reproducing long accents as short ones, e.g., in bars 15-19;
- erroneously assigning sempre piano to bar 46 instead of 39;
- replacing the non-slashed grace note with a slashed one in bars 47 and 67;
- combining the grace note with the subsequent bottom note of the chord with a slur in bars 96 and 98.
Editorial revisions certainly include:
- additions of necessary accidentals, in particular all mentioned as overlooked in the characteristics of GC;
-
change of the g-f
1 seventh to the g-g1 octave in bar 25 (an erroneous revision); -
addition of a
raising e3 to e3 in bar 26 (an erroneous revision); -
shift of dynamic indications between the staves, e.g.,
in bar 27.
In spite of a quite careful revision of accidentals, not all inaccuracies were detected in GE1 – the F and f1 crotchets in bar 6 were left without the necessary sharps and the penultimate octave in bar 11 was left without naturals. The erroneous octave in the L.H. at the end of bar 10 was also repeated without any change after GC.
GE1 was provided with slightly differing covers, in particular the copies from 1841 and later have a changed price (15 Ngr instead of 12 Gr). From 1841, particular Etudes were published also separately, provided with a collective cover including 12 etudes each by Chopin, Henselt and Thalberg.
| Original in: | Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
| Shelf-mark: | IV 120/2 |