EE1 - First English edition
| Publisher: | Wessel & Co. |
| Date: | I 1840 |
| Plate number: | (W & Co. No. 3099.) |
| 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; Chopin had no part in preparing the edition. A cross-cutting description of EE1 in the entire Op. 28 is to be found in the Prelude in C no. 1.
In the Prelude in B
minor, a number of revisions were introduced, e.g.:
- all overlooked accidentals were added (in b. 8, 11-12, 27, 29),
- cautionary accidentals were added, e.g. in b. 24 and 30,
- horizontal accents were replaced with vertical ones in b. 1,
- additional L.H. slurs were added in bars 19-24,
- the Terzverschreibung mistake in b. 43 was corrected,
- a staccato dot was added in the L.H. part in b. 45.
In EE1 mistakes were committed too, e.g.:
- the staccato dot in b. 1 or the quaver flag of the grace note in b. 46 were overlooked;
- L.H. slurs in bars 12-14 and 29 were omitted,
- a Terzverschreibung mistake in b. 25 was committed.
| Original in: | Pierpont Morgan Library, New York |
| Shelf-mark: | Fuld |