Afrag - Autograph fragment

Autograph fragment

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

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A1 - Autograph fair-copy

Autograph fair-copy

Autograph intended as a Stichvorlage for the first French edition.

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FE - French edition

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.

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GE - German edition

German edition

Pietro Mechetti (P.M. No 3682), Vienna:
GE1 ‒ First German edition, August 1842;
GE2 ‒ Second German edition, 1861.

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EE - English edition

English edition

Wessel & Co, London, plate number (W & Co. No. 5303):
EE1 – First English edition, August 1842.

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Filiation of the sources

                 

 

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.