EE1 - First English edition


Publisher: Wessel & Co.
Date: I 1840
Plate number: (W & Co. No. 3098.)
Title: Twenty four Grand Préludes through all Keys
Dedication: His Friend Camille Pleyel

First English edition in which the whole Op. 28 was divided into two fascicules bearing consecutive plate numbers (3098 & 3099), and containing respectively 14 and 10 preludes. EE1 is based on FE2, with some arbitrary revisions – see Prelude in C no. 1. Chopin had no part in preparing the edition.

In this Prelude, inaccuracies of the chromatic notation were corrected by adding accidentals in the L.H. part on the basis of the R.H. part (b. 10, 13 and 14). In addition, naturals raising c(1) to c(1) in b. 5 were added (overlooked by Chopin). Similar naturals were also added – arbitrarily and erroneously – in b. 6.
In bar 4 the mistaken 4th L.H. quaver was repeated after FEd instead of e.

Original in: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Shelf-mark: Fuld