GE2 - Second German edition


Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel
Date: ca 1855
Title: Douze Etudes || Étude XII
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 score :

  • the  time signature was returned;
  • range of dynamic hairpins was changed, often insignificantly, e.g., bar 7 and 52;
  • erroneous notes in bars 1329 and 52 were corrected;
  • in many places, the notation of accents was homogenised to a significant extent;
  • dashes marking the range of cresc. in bars 35-42 were completed and dashes in bars 58-67 were added (partially on the basis of FC);
  • slurring in bars 81-82 was corrected (on the basis of FC, yet inconsistently);
  •  at the end of the Etude was added.

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