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, with some arbitrary revisions – see Prelude C no. 1. Chopin had no part in preparing the edition.

In this Prelude a few obvious accidentals omitted by Chopin were added –  (f1) in b. 3 and flats (d1) in b. 17 and 19. Committed were also a few errors – omitted L.H. slurs in b. 11-1234 and 38, and pedal markings in b. 17 and 34.

Eye-catching is the uncorrected error in b. 41, repeated after FE.

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