GE1 - First German edition
| Publisher: | Breitkopf & Härtel |
| Date: | XI 1837 |
| Plate number: | 5852 |
| Title: | Scherzo |
| Dedication: | Mademoiselle la Comtesse Adèle de Fürstenstein |
GE1 is based on FC (see the characterization of that copy) and does not bear traces of Chopin's proofreading. In turn, a revision focused on ordering the notation of accidentals and performance indications, i.e. slurs, dots, accents, etc., typical for B&H publications, was performed therein.
The revisions cover:
- Accidentals, e.g. addition of necessary ones in b. 40, 499, 541-543, addition of cautionary ones in b. 181, 316, 380 or 516-517, removal of unjustified ones in b. 470;
- Change of the range of slurs, e.g. in b. 1 or 274-275;
- Doubling indications in the L.H. part, e.g. slurs in b. 1-3 and analog. or 572-579 and 581-582, staccato dots in b. 5 and analog. or 573 and 575;
- Additions of various elements of notation, considered overlooked mainly on the basis of a comparison with analogous situations, e.g. slur in b. 119-120, 249-250 or 532-533, staccato dot in b. 154, ties of b-d
1 in b. 348-349, - Other unifying changes, e.g. d to e in b. 273, extension of the slur in b. 497-498,
- Corrections of patent mistakes present in FC, e.g. addition of octave signs in b. 9 and 14-17.
It is sometimes uncertain whether a given change is a revision or a mistake, e.g. in the case of the slur added in b. 114-115.
Numerous inaccuracies in the reproduction of the notation of FC were caused by certain routine habits of engravers, e.g. adjusting the length of slurs or dynamic hairpins to beams or certain metric structures, e.g. bars. A number of differences stems from ambiguities of the manuscript or from difficulties in the interpretation of marks Chopin used unconventionally: it mainly concerns long accents, which were interpreted either as common, short accents or 
hairpins (see, e.g. b. 6-7, 14-15 and analog.). Frequently encountered inaccuracies also include omission of the dashes marking the range of indications, e.g. after cresc. in b. 72, 241 or 725.
GE1 also committed a number of mistakes, e.g.:
- pitch mistakes, e.g. c instead of d
in b. 1, d3 instead of c3 in b. 8; - omissions, e.g. in b. 98 or 294-295, tie of a2 in b. 101-102, f in b. 271-272 or e2 in b. 310-311, slur in b. 278-280, accent in b. 478, staccato dot in b. 482, L.H. arpeggio in b. 560;
- change of
to 
in b. 154 and 358; - earlier beginning of the slur in b. 347.
| Original in: | Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | A.9 |