GE1 - First German edition
| Publisher: | Breitkopf & Härtel |
| Date: | XI 1847 |
| Plate number: | 7714 |
| Title: | Trois Mazourkas |
| Dedication: | Madame la Comtesse Laure Czosnowska |
GE1 was based on a proof copy of FE1 containing no latest changes, which therefore are not included in GE1. Nothing indicates that Chopin could have participated in its preparation, however, it bears traces of editorial revision*, e. g.:
- extended slurs in bars 5-6, 56,
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added sharps rising d to d
in bars 58-60, 62 and 63, -
ties omitted to g
in bars 59-60, and added to c1 in bars 61-63, -
added tie to b in bars 93-94.
The characteristic mannerism of GE1 in Op. 63 is the non-use of slashed grace notes, e.g. in bars 79 and 81.
GE1 contains several errors repeated after FE1 or its proof:
* The revisers were Robert and Clara Schumann – in a letter to Hermann Härtel dated 14 September 1847 Clara writes that "her husband and she looked through Chopin's Mazurkas and found only a few small errors" ([...] mein Mann und ich haben sie [die Chopin'schen Mazurken] durchgesehen, und nur einige Fehler entdeckt [...]). Quote from: Monica Steegmann (ed.) ... daß Gott mir ein Talent geschenkt, Schott 1997, p. 51.
| Original in: | Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | III.11 |