AsI - Working autograph of the score
| Date: | 1827 |
| Title: | Variations sur le Theme de Mozart |
| Dedication: | None |
Working autograph of the score, signed "FFCh 1827". The notation of the piece is hasty, sometimes shorthand, with numerous corrections made probably at different times (the manuscript includes, e.g. the annotation "1829 went to Vienna"). The present description covers only the initial, working edition of the solo part of Variation IV.
As was the case with the remaining part of the Variation, it is uncertain which elements should be considered the text of AsI, since there are alternative versions in a few places. Those that were visibly added later and coincide with the text subsequently written in A (often in pencil) are indicated only in the notes. The text of AsI proper is established on the basis of the homogeneous notation in ink, including the corrections that were most probably entered during the initial, general stage of work on the manuscript, e.g. in bar 7.
What is noteworthy is the use of intervals different from the octave between the last hemidemisemiquavers of particular groups and the following semiquavers, more frequent in comparison with the later version of A. Most of them exceed the octave, which from a pianistic point of view gives larger and therefore more difficult jumps.
| Original in: | Pierpont Morgan Library, New York |
| Shelf-mark: | C549.L139 |
