Illustrations - Work - Part II:
Authorised copies, copies used in lessons and early first editions
Title page, composer’s autograph.
Collection of the Chopin Museum in Warsaw.
12. Nocturne C minor op. 48 no.1.Copy for publisher Julian Fontana, p.1.
Collection of the Chopin Museum in Warsaw.
13a. Etude A flat major op. 25 no.1.First edition with the composer’s handmade corrections, Ludwika Jędrzejewiczowa’s copy, p. 1.
Collection of the Chopin Museum in Warsaw.
13b. Etude A flat major op. 25 no.1, bars 3 and 5.
First edition with the composer’s handmade corrections, Ludwika Jędrzejewiczowa’s copy.
Collection of the Chopin Museum in Warsaw.
14a. Mazurka A minor op. 59 no.1.
First edition with the composer’s handmade corrections, Camille O’Mear’s copy, p. 1.
Original kept in a private collection.
Reproduction from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute’s Record Library.
14b. Mazurka A minor op. 59 no.1.
First edition with the composer’s handmade corrections, Camille O’Mear’s copy, bars 16-17.
Original kept in a private collection.
Reproduction from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute’s Record Library.
15. Nocturne E flat major op.9 no.2.
First edition with the composer’s handmade corrections, Jane Wilhelmina Stirling’s copy.
Original kept in a private collection. Reproduction from a facsimile edition by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
and Jean-Michel Nectoux (ed.): Frédéric Chopin: oeuvres pour piano. Facsimilé de l'exemplaire de Jane W. Stirling avec annotations et corrections de l'auteur. Paris 1982.
16. Polonaise G minor.
First edition, I.J. Cybulski, Warsaw 1817, p. 1 of the music text.
Collection of the Chopin Museum in Warsaw.
17. Rondo C minor op. 1.
First edition, A. Brzezina, Warsaw 1825. Title page.
Collection of the Chopin Museum in Warsaw.
18. Rondo C minor op. 1.
First edition, A. Brzezina, Warsaw 1825, p. 1 of the music text.
Collection of the Chopin Museum in Warsaw.
19. Variations B flat major op. 2 on La ci darem la mano from the opera Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart.
First edition, T. Haslinger, Vienna 1830. Title page.
Reproduction from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute’s Library.