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The complete Chopin

Composer: Frédéric Chopin

Editor: Roy Howat

Musical edition: Edition Peters

Instrumentation: piano

Degree of difficulty: difficult

Languages: English, German and French

Year of publication: 2021

The Complete Chopin - A Critical New Edition from The Peters Editions is firmly established as the most important scholarly edition of Chopin's music lessons and is a must-read for any discerning pianist.

The Peters Edition is now delighted to present Roy Howat's new edition for The Complete Chopin from the Three New Studies of Chopin. Originally published in 1840 in The Method of Methods to Several Composers, the Three New Studies are Chopin's least overtly virtuoso studies, but they are arguably the most quietly sophisticated of all in terms of training the pianist's sensitivity. to sound, rhythm and texture. Debussy once said that he had "worn out his fingers" while playing the second of them. After 180 years, it seems extraordinary that new details can still be found in the pieces, but Howat's edition prints some for the first time, including a number of melodic variations in the first Etude, as well as notes in the second Study that all previous editions have bowdlerized. ". Literally acting as a pivot in the structure of the Second Etude, these authentic notes - restored here with sensitivity - alter our perception of the texture and harmonization of music as the piece takes flight on one of the strings. most breathtaking modulation patterns of Chopin. The edition also confirms some authentic fingering still unknown to most pianists, including the whimsical thumb "skips" over the black keys at the end of Etude 3. In accordance with the editorial procedure for this series, editing is based on one main source, the manuscript that Chopin carefully prepared for his friend Moscheles, furthermore, some changes that Chopin introduced after publication are listed here as variants, allowing pianists to choose options in performances in full awareness of their origin.

An authoritative critical edition based on Chopin's autograph restores Chopin's original text and corrects important notes erroneously presented in previous editions.

• Includes only authentic Chopin fingerings
• Variants clearly presented as ossias in the main text of each study
• Preface by Roy Howat in English, French and German
• In-depth critical comments

The Complete Chopin is based on two key premises. First, there can be no definitive version of Chopin's works: variants are an integral part of the music. Second, a permissive fusion of readings from multiple sources in fact producing a version of the music that never really existed should be avoided. Accordingly, the process for publishers is to identify a single primary source for each work and prepare an edition of that source (which they consider "the best", although it may not be definitive). At the same time, important variations from other authorized sources are reproduced either alongside or, in some cases, in the main text of the music, in footnotes or in the critical commentary, thus allowing a scholarly comparison. and facilitating the choice of interpretation. Multiple versions of entire works are presented when the differences between the sources are so abundant or fundamental that they go beyond the category of "variants".