A - Autograph


Date: 1836
Title: Ballade
Dedication: Monsieur le Baron de Stockhausen

Autograph/fair-copy (photocopy in the Library of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Warsaw). A served as the basis for the first French edition.

A is partially of a working nature – the notation is hasty (inaccurate or overlooked slurs, e.g. in bars 37-39, overlooked accidentals) and contains numerous, as for a basis for print, corrections, e.g. in bar 33 or 40-42. Moreover, it is not the final version of the Ballade, since Chopin, while proofreading FE, introduced a number of corrections and additions, concerning performance indications, rhythm and pitch – see the characterisation of FE1 and FE2.

Original in: Private collection
Shelf-mark: None