GE2op - Second German edition of Op. 64


Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel
Date: ca 1855
Plate number: 7721
Title: Valse
Dedication: None

Second edition of the version including the entire opus in one book, in which a number of arbitrary changes with respect to GE1op was introduced. They include, i.a.:

  • additions of accidentals,
  • addition of a tie sustaining f2 in bars 40-41;
  • omission of the  sign in bar 92.

There are impressions of GE2op differing in the details of the cover or printing technique. The copy presented in mUltimate Chopin comes from a slightly later impression (ca. 1856). 

Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw
Shelf-mark: 1612/n