EE2 - Corrected reprint of EE1
| Publisher: | Wessel & Co. |
| Date: | ⇒1840 |
| Title: | Douze Etudes || No. 23 |
| Dedication: | None |
Among the changes introduced in EE2 one can mention corrections of the mistakes of EE1, e.g., in bar 5 (change of d4 to c4 and addition of a 
sign) and 6 (change of b to a), a number of additions of accidentals, e.g., in bar 11.
A number of revisions performed on the basis of comparison with FE is striking:
- addition of fingering in bars 8-9;
- deletion of c1 from the chord on the 3rd beat in bar 45;
- addition of pedalling in bars 46 and 48;
- addition of a grace note in bar 59.
In bars 10-12 and 58, apart from the fingering adopted from FE, a new fingering was added, modelled on the fingering of FE.
The copy presented in mUltimate Chopin comes from a later impression (1843), in which the individual title page was replaced with the cover of the Wessel & Co's Complete Collection of the Compositions of Frederic Chopin series. EE2 was then reprinted with further versions of this collective cover (completed with next Chopin pieces published by Wessel) until ca. 1858, when certain modifications were performed in the note text (see the characteristics of EE3). EE2 also includes copies of this Etude published separately. All versions of EE2 with a collective cover, as well as those published separately, are devoid of the authentic dedication.
| Original in: | Royal Academy of Music, Library, London |
| Shelf-mark: | 4 Chopin 10 (4) |