EEC - Earliest English edition
| Publisher: | Cramer, Beale & Cie. |
| Date: | IV 1848 |
| Plate number: | 4369 |
| Title: | Deux Valses pour Piano || Valse No. 2 |
| Dedication: | None |
The earliest English edition of the first two Waltzes, Op. 64, in which the text of FE, with a few exceptions, was repeated. According to M. J. E. Brown (Chopin: An Index of His Works in Chronological Order, New York 1972) it was a pirate edition, which, however, in light of newer research turned out to be an assumption not based on the knowledge of the reality*.
Differences with respect to FE include, e.g.:
-
no
signs in bars 7-8, - no bottom slur in the R.H. in bars 16-17,
- no accent in bar 39.
The visible in the presented copy sparse additions in pencil are of no source value.
* Cf. overview of the issue of copyright in the times of Chopin (in English) in: Cristophe Grabowski, John Rink Annotated Catalogue of Chopin's First Editions, online version.
| Original in: | Ewa & Jeremiusz Glensk Collection, Poznań |
| Shelf-mark: | EJG 1108 |