A - Autograph
| Date: | (IX-X) 1835 |
| Title: | 4 Mazurkas || Nro 3 |
| Dedication: | Monsieur le Comte de Perthuis |
The autograph of the Mazurkas Op. 24 was probably written later than the presentation autograph of the Mazurka in A flat major (AI) dated 22 Sept. 1835 that contained the still non-final version of the work. On the other hand, by mid-December that year the entire work was already printed, first in Leipzig and then in Paris. It seems, therefore, that A must have been ready not later than the beginning of November.
A served as the base text for Breitkopf & Härtel to prepare GE1. The manuscript contains typical additions in crayon (inscriptions at the beginning of the work) and in pencil (numbers denoting the planned division of the musical text into pages and systems).
As is the case with many other Chopin’s autographs, A combines attention to detail with hasty writing. Erasures and deletions reveal places in which the composer corrected rhythm (e.g. bar 1) or details of the accompaniment (bars 4 and 8), changed the graphic layout (bars 20-23) or made the slurs more clear (e.g. in bars 7-8 or 28-29).
Haste is visible in imprecisely drawn slurs, for instance in bar 33, deformed signs (e.g. 
in bar 26) or characteristic hooked endings of many lines drawn downwards (note stems, naturals, bar lines), e.g. in bars 39-43.
| Original in: | Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | Mus. 216 |
