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Afrag - Autograph fragment

Autograph fair-copy of the first 12 bars, unperfected.

Autograph intended as a Stichvorlage for the first French edition.

Maurice Schlesinger, Paris:
FE1 ‒ First French edition, plate number M.S. 1926, 14 September 1842,
FE2 ‒ Second French edition, no number, 4 December 1842,
FED ‒ Camille O'Méara-Dubois copy of FE1 with Chopin's annotations.

Pietro Mechetti (P.M. N^o 3682), Vienna:
GE1 ‒ First German edition, August 1842;
GE2 ‒ Second German edition, 1861.

Wessel & C^o, London, plate number (W&C^o.N^o.5303):
EE1 – First English edition, August 1842.

Additional source

Two-bar incipit in a list of Chopin's works placed at the end of the collection belonging to his pupil, Jane Wilhelmina Stirling.

Principles behind the main text of
the Mazurka in G major, Op. 50 No. 1

We base the main text on GE1, compared with A1. We take into consideration Chopin's corrections in FE1 and FE2, and annotations in FED.

Op. 50 No. 1, Mazurka in G major

Afrag - Autograph fragment

A1 - Autograph fair-copy

FE - French edition

GE - German edition

EE - English edition

Filiation of the sources

Additional source

Principles behind the main text of
the Mazurka in G major, Op. 50 No. 1

Op. 50 No. 1, Mazurka in G major

Afrag - Autograph fragment

A1 - Autograph fair-copy

FE - French edition

GE - German edition

EE - English edition

Filiation of the sources

Additional source

Principles behind the main text of the Mazurka in G major, Op. 50 No. 1

Principles behind the main text of
the Mazurka in G major, Op. 50 No. 1