EE1 - First English edition


Publisher: Wessel & Stapleton
Date: VII-VIII 1842
Plate number: W & S. No 5303.
Title: Eighth Set of Mazurkas || No. 3.
Dedication: Mister Henry Field, of Bath

EE1 is based on a proof copy of FE1 that did not contain the group of the last changes introduced by Chopin – see the characterization of FE1. Certain errors of FE, corrected during the last stage of proofreading, are preserved in EE1, e.g. the lack of raising a1 to a1 in b. 6. The edition does not bear any traces of Chopin's participation in its development; however, it was revised:

  • cautionary accidentals were added, e.g.  before f1 in b. 7 and 9, before c1 in b. 162, naturals before b and a in b. 33;
  • the necessary  before the last quaver in b. 34 (f) was added;
  • the L.H. slur in b. 119 was extended into b. 120;
  • the two-part notation in b. 134-140 was erroneously modified.

We also find a few mistakes in EE1, e.g. d1 instead of c1 in b. 50, omitted slurs in b. 69-92.

The copy of EE1 presented in mUltimate Chopin probably comes from the beginning of 1843, which is indicated by the content of the title page*.


* Information after Annotated Catalogue Online, 50-1a-W&S.

Original in: Ewa & Jeremiusz Glensk Collection, Poznań
Shelf-mark: EJG 2763