FE1 - First French edition


Publisher: E. Troupenas et Cie
Date: V 1840
Plate number: T. 891
Title: Sonate || Marche funèbre
Dedication: None

The earliest known impression of FE whose copy was deposited by the editor in the Library of the Conservatoire de Paris as an obligatory deposit. No title chart and a significant number of mistakes (several dozen – cf. 1st mov.) suggest that it was one of the trial copies, still before proofreadings. In Marche the most significant mistakes include:

  • no  in bar 18 and analog. and 40 and 78;
  • erroneous pitch of the trilled minim in bar 20 and analog.;
  • d2-c2 instead of c2-b1 in the 1st half in bar 45;
  • no middle notes of the chords in the R.H. in bar 71;
  • no f on the 4th beat of bar 76;
  • no indication of trill in bar 82.

FE1 was based on the same autograph of Chopin which was previously the base of GC.

Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Shelf-mark: Ac. p. 2683