mUltimate Chopin

Op. 64 No 1, Waltz in D♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Page: 
Source: 
p. 1, b. 1-30
p. 1, b. 1-30
p. 2, b. 31-61
p. 3, b. 62-94
p. 4, b. 95-124
Main text
Main text
As - Autograph sketch
AI - Autograph I
AII - Autograph Caraman
AIII - Autograph Rothschild
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Second French Edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1op - First German edition of Op. 64
GE1Db - First German edition of Waltz No 1
GE2op - Second German edition of Op. 64
GE2Db - Second German edition of Waltz No 1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2op
GE3Db - Third German edition of Waltz No 1
GE4Db - Revised impression of GE3Db
EE - English edition
EEC - Earliest English edition
EEW1 - First English edition
EEW2 - Revised impression of WaW1
Select notes: 
Category
All
Graphic ambiguousness
Interpretations within context
Differences between sources
Editorial revisions
Corrections & alterations
Source & stylistic information
Notation
All
Pitch
Rhythm
Slurs
Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
Verbal indications
Pedalling
Fingering
Ornaments
Shorthand & other
Differences
No differences
As - Autograph sketch
AI - Autograph I
AII - Autograph Caraman
AIII - Autograph Rothschild
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Second French Edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1op - First German edition of Op. 64
GE1Db - First German edition of Waltz No 1
GE2op - Second German edition of Op. 64
GE2Db - Second German edition of Waltz No 1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2op
GE3Db - Third German edition of Waltz No 1
GE4Db - Revised impression of GE3Db
EE - English edition
EEC - Earliest English edition
EEW1 - First English edition
EEW2 - Revised impression of WaW1
Importance
All
Important
Main
Undo Clear
Prezentacja
Select 
copy link PDF -

  b. 20

 in As, AI & A

 in AII, AIII & FE (→EE)

No ornament in GE

The sign in A over the 3rd quaver is not entirely legible (similarly in As and AI) – it reminds a  rather than a . FE (→EE) includes a , whereas in GE there is no ornament at all, which may suggest that the  in FE was introduced in the last proofreading. Taking into account this possibility and clear mordents in AII and AIII, in the main text we give a . Actually, in faster tempos both signs were used by Chopin interchangeably. Cf. bar 92.

Compare the passage in the sources»

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of FE, Inaccuracies in A

notation: Ornaments

Missing markers on sources: EEC, FE1, FED, FES, As, AII, A, AI, AIII, EEW1, GE1Db, GE1op, GE2Db, GE2op, GE3Db, GE4Db, GE3, EEW2, FE2
Complete ➔