GE1 - First German edition


Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel
Date: IX 1839
Plate number: 6088
Title: Vingt-quatre Préludes
Dedication: Son ami J. C. Kessler

GE1 is based on FC, Chopin took no part in its preparation. In the entire Op. 28 GE1 contains many adjustments and errors – see Prelude in no. 1. There are copies of GE1 which have differing covers, and the edition was also published in a version of 4 fascicules containing 6 preludes each.

The more pronounced mistakes committed in GE1 in this Prelude include:

  • the long grace note in b. 7 having been reproduced as a regular crotchet,
  • no pedal markings in b. 10,
  • no tie to d2 in b. 14 and to g1 in b. 25,
  • A instead of c in b. 29.

Moreover, the patent mistake repeated after FCF instead of G – in b. 16 was not corrected.

Original in: Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw
Shelf-mark: II.6