Annotated Catalogue of Chopin's First Editions

ISBN: 9780521819176 (0521819172)
Edition Type: Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Pages: 994
Date Published: 21st Jan 2010

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Preface
Sigla of publishers
Sigla of libraries and private collections
Chopin's first editions: historical overview
Introduction to the Annotated Catalogue
Annotated Catalogue
Plates
Appendices: I. Orchestral parts
II. Series title pages
III. Advertisements
IV. Index of libraries and private collections
V. Uncatalogued works
Bibliography.

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This Annotated Catalogue presents the most ambitious and comprehensive research ever carried out on the first editions of Chopin's music. It begins with an in-depth introduction to these unique sources and the publishing practices that gave rise to them. A detailed description then follows of each Chopin first edition and the later impressions produced by the original publishers or their successors. The Annotated Catalogue facilitates identification of the Chopin scores held in libraries and private collections around the world by attempting to reconstruct the creative history of each edition. It features entries on 1,552 distinct impressions – of which some 4,830 copies are individually described – along with explanatory essays, appendices and facsimiles of over 200 title pages which illustrate their respective catalogue entries. Musicians and musicologists alike will gain an unprecedented understanding of the creative history of each Chopin edition and the music within it.

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