A - Autograph
| Date: | VIII-IX 1847 |
| Title: | [Valse] || Nro 3 |
| Dedication: | Mlle la Comtesse Catherine Branicka |
A Stichvorlage, with clearly visible signs, probably performed in pencil, with which the engraver of FE marked the planned distribution of the text into great staves and pages. A is written quite densly, wich a minor number of corrections in the form of deletions. Among these that are legible on the available photographs, the most significant include:
- change of the shape of the accompaniment in bars 13-14 – replacing the typical bass-chord-chord scheme with a two-bar wave of dyads,
- change of the bass note in bar 37 from A to c with a corresponding it correction of the middle note of the chords on the 2nd and 3rd beats,
- removal of the chord in the L.H. on the 3rd beat of bar 54,
- change of the direction of stems, perhaps also the content of crotchets in the L.H. in bars 61-62,
- removal of an indication (agogic?) over bars 73-78,
- removal of the d1 from the chord at the end of bar 84,
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change of the 4th quaver in the R.H. from f2 to d
2 in bars 16 and 124.
Chopin introduced further minor improvements while proofreading FE.
A is not free from mistakes, e.g.:
- numerous inaccuracies in the notation of accidentals, generally repeated after As,
- new oversights, e.g., of naturals in bars 143 and 144,
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a possible oversight of ties sustaining e1 in bars 109-110 and 125-126.
In mUltimate Chopin we present digitalised, black-and-white photographs of A from the legacy of Prof. Jan Ekier.
| Original in: | Private collection, Basel |