EE1 - First English Edition


Publisher: Wessel & Co.
Date: 1837
Plate number: W & Co 1648
Title: Les Plaintives! Deux Nocturnes. 7e. Nocturne
Dedication: Madame la Comtesse d'Appony

EE1 repeats the text of FE1 with a number of additions, not avoiding certain errors, e.g. in bar 14. Chopin did not take part in its preparation.

Revisions of EE1 include performance markings (e.g. L.H. slurs in bars 1-2) and added accidentals (e.g.  in bar 5 and bars 27-28,  in bar 68). Most performance markings were added on the basis of authentic markings appearing in similar places (accents on g2 in bar 6 and bar 15 or crescendo  hairpins and staccato dots bar 19). This edition disregards characteristic anomalies in the notation of the rhythm  that can be seen in GE (→FE).

EE1  exhibits the typical features of Wessel's publications: wavy slurs, notation of grace notes and minims and an arbitrarily added title. 

Original in: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Shelf-mark: ESM 7/35 (8)