A1 - Autograph fair-copy
| Date: | (1842) |
| Title: | 3 Mazurkas || No. 2 |
| Dedication: | Monsieur Léon Szmitkowski |
Autograph fair-score comprising the entire opus 50, without a separate title page – title, dedication, three publishers and opus number were written by Chopin over the text of the first Mazurka. The additions performed in pencil visible in A1 (mainly even numbers) come from the engraver and mark the division of the text into great staves and pages implemented in FE1.
A1 of this Mazurka was written in a careful and clear manner with only few corrections (crossings-out). The two pertaining to the tempo-character at the beginning of the piece, and the two major ones, as a result of which the changed text had to be entered on an adjacent stave (b. 36-37 and 76) prove that some compositional details were still being improved. Some 10 remaining minor crossings-out are mostly corrections of mistakes.
Bars 9-27 are provided with numbers from 1 to 15; that numbering system was then used to mark b. 40-58 and 84-102 in an abridged manner. Similarly, letters from a to g written in b. 61-67 make possible to mark in an abridged manner b. 77-83.
| Original in: | Pierpont Morgan Library, New York |
| Shelf-mark: | C549.M476 (Mary Flager Cary Collection) |
