GE1 - First German edition
| Publisher: | Breitkopf & Härtel |
| Date: | V 1840 |
| Title: | Sonate || Scherzo |
| Dedication: | None |
GE1 is based on GC, however, the text of the basis was reproduced with a significant number of defects, resulting from distraction (oversights), misunderstanding of the manuscript or use of certain engraver conventions (manners). One can mention here:
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introduction of a
under the bottom stave in bar 1; -
oversight of the
sign in bar 14 and the 
sign in bar 75, as well as all pedalling in bars 259-260; - oversight of dynamic signs in bars 117-120;
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oversight of ties sustaining c
2 in bars 118-120; - combination of phrase marks in bars 117-121 and 140-141, premature beginning of the slur in bar 128;
- oversight of performance indications in bar 189.
In GE1 a careful revision of accidentals was performed, detecting the vast majority of the manuscript's defects and adding cautionary signs, e.g., a 
before d2 in bar 115 or c1 in bar 142. The signs, added in bar 130 and 131 next to most probably erroneous notes, prove definitely the non-authenticity of the changes introduced in GE1, at least in this regard.
Some of the other mistakes were also corrected, e.g.:
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a1 to g1 was changed in the chord in bar 52 and 240;
- ties sustaining the octave in the L.H. in bars 79-80 were added;
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g was changed to b in bar 108;
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c1 was added in the last chord in bar 140;
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a was added in bar 158;
Nothing indicates Chopin's participation in the development of GE1 (cf. the 1st movement of the Sonata).
| Original in: | Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
| Shelf-mark: | IV 2071 |