Etüden op. 10: Sammelband für Klavier

With the publication of Chopin's Études Op. 10, another landmark volume joins the acclaimed series The Complete Chopin - A New Critical Edition. Chopin's Études occupy a central place in the piano repertoire, revered by generations of pianists not only for their technical demands but also for their exceptional musicality, which transcends the concept of mere 'studies.' In this Urtext edition of Études Op. 10 (the earlier of Chopin's two main sets of studies, ending with the famous 'Revolutionary' etude), pianist and scholar Roy Howat addresses the many errors in the very poorly engraved first French edition of 1833 - an edition that nevertheless included many important revisions made at proof stage. Basing each Étude on either the first French edition or the autograph manuscript from which it was engraved, Howat has produced an Urtext edition that corrects many longstanding errors, sometimes for the first time, as well as showing authentic variant readings by Chopin, some of them...