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 C 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 manifest errors committed in GE1 in this Prelude include, e.g.:
- no a
in the L.H. chords in the 2nd half of b. 5; - f2 instead of g2 in b. 5;
- f instead of g in b. 26,
- no
raising d1 to d1 in b. 53, - no staccato dot at the beginning of b. 65.
The revisions of GE1 encompass the following:
- adding necessary accidentals, e.g. almost 30 sharps and naturals in b. 44-46 and following,
- ordering accidentals – removing unnecessary ones, e.g. in b. 51-54 or adding cautionary ones, e.g.
before e1 in b. 33 or 6 flats and naturals in b. 52.
In spite of revision, GE1 did not detect all mistakes of FC, particularly:
in GE1 is the only among the first editions that kept (in the majority of the situations) the abridged notation of repeated quavers as dotted crotchets or minims provided with a quaver tremolo.
| Original in: | Zbiory prywatne (kolekcja Jana Ekiera), Warszawa |
| Shelf-mark: | II.6 |