As - Autograph sketch


Date: [ca 1846-1847]
Title: Brak

On a double chart the Waltz is written on the pages 1 and 4. On the page 2 one can see – "upside down" with respect to the Waltz – attempts of notation of the Scherzo from the Sonata in G minor, Op. 65. In mUltimate Chopin, wanting to preserve the factual layout of the pages of the double chart, and at the same time to present the pages with the Waltz in the correct order and next to each other, we adopted the 2-1-4-3 layout of the pages, which corresponds to viewing the manuscript folded in such a way that the Waltz is in the middle of the chart.

As was first written with a quill (in ink) and then it was completed and corrected in pencil. Bars 133-140 are written in two versions, out of which the later became the final one. The accompaniment is generally written in pencil, in particular the chords in the L.H., but also a number of corrections in the melody and the final version of bars 147-148, which originally occupied one bar, are written in pencil. 

While writing A, Chopin certainly used As, which did not keep him away from a few mistakes. 

Original in: Bibliothèque de l'Opéra, Paris
Shelf-mark: Rés 50 (1)