GE1op - First German edition of Op. 64
| Publisher: | Breitkopf & Härtel |
| Date: | XI 1847 |
| Plate number: | 7721 |
| Title: | Trois Valses pour Piano | No. 2 |
| Dedication: | None |
An edition based on a proof copy of FE1 without corrections introduced by Chopin. It bears traces of both editorial revision and – probably – Chopin's proofreading (see also the characterization of GE1op in the Waltz in A
major, No. 3). The most significant, probably authentic change is addition of seven ties in bars 66-67, 70-71, 75-77, 81-82 and 91-93, which changed the repeated melodic notes in syncopations.
In GE1op one can see a number of defects, yet a part of them – in particular oversights of certain signs – can simply reproduce the state of the proof copy of FE being its base text. It particularly concerns the cases in which GE1op is compatible with the parallely prepared GE1no2, e.g.:
- no dynamic hairpins in bars 9 and 137 and 140-141,
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no tie sustaining b in bars 84-85,
- no slurs in the R.H. in bars 137-139,
- no Più mosso in bar 161.
Examples of other mistakes of GE1op may be found in the characterization of GE1no2, among the differences between both versions of GE1.
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | 4266/n |