As - Autograph sketch
| Date: | [1847] |
| Title: | Brak |
| Dedication: | None |
The proper sketch of the Waltz occupies one page of a double chart. Bars 1-48 and 65-80 are either written or marked. An expected repetition of bars 33-48 as bars 49-64 may be signalised with a double line after bar 48, whereas the repetition (with partially written changes) of bars 65-80 as bars 81-96 is clearly indicated with the help of two versions of the ending marked 1ma and 2da. Marking bar 97 with a characteristic ninth at the beginning ends the manuscript. Therefore, the existing notation allows for expecting 112 or 128 bars of the piece, which, at the moment of writing As, probably constituted the whole – cf. the form of AI. Taking into account the above, as well as parallelism of the notation with the remaining sources, we reproduce the sketch comprising 128 bars.
In many places, the part of the L.H. is written only in a symbolic manner, e.g., only bass notes in bars 9, 11, 41-43. In bars 13-16 the accompaniment is not marked at all. As far as the part of the R.H. is concerned, it is generally complete, in a few places more than one version is written (bars 4, 8, 13-16, 38-40, 93-96). Some of deletions-corrections resulted in inkblots impeding the interpretation of the actual notation, although one can surmise, in all likelihood, what was written there (bars 8, 9).
As does not include any performance indications except for slurs in bars 10, 32, 73 (89?) and 96.
| Original in: | Bibliothèque de l'Opéra, Paris |
| Shelf-mark: | Rés 50 (1) |