questions are always raised, and I sure wish I could study all the autographs of the pieces I play. I agree the pedal markings are most problematic in any Chopin edition, especially due to the importance of careful pedaling in Chopin. I think they are commonly referred to as "Paderewski editions" because the chief editor was Ignace Paderewski-though they are published (or at least were published, before the went out of print and came back again) by Polish Music Publications. I think the Paderewski editions are in fact complete though-the 7th volume is Nocturnes (which I ordered today) and the 9th volume contains the Waltzes. Thanks for your thoughts on the editions, FaultyDamper. I found the complete set available from Hickey's music center, online at if anyone's interested. They just are not as easy to find as the Henles or the Dover scores (which are Mikuli editions), at least around where I live. I have found that the Paderewski editions of Chopin works were in fact out of print for many years, but recently (in the past 4 or 5 years) came back into print. (And actually, pedalling indications sometimes wouldn't work due to the differences in pianos from now and then so it is a moot point however you look at it.) This means the page ends up looking somewhat empty because of the extra space required to indicate different pedalling. I don't agree with the editing here because it tries to be too complete by indicating multiple alternative pedaling indications from the differing original editions when there were alternatives. Peters is currently publishing a new critical "urtext" edition and has already published the Preludes and Ballades (both of which I own). My suggestion on an alternative edition: NOT Henle Urtext (idiotic editing in some pieces will make you use your brain in ways you wouldn't think you would think).Īctually, I can't recommend any edition of Chopin's works. It seems the editors had a brain fart.Īlso, Dover does not reprint the Paderewski edition and Paderewski is not the publisher of the original scores.īut on the sunny side, I agree, the cover is attractive. The editing is also poor and there are certain mistakes that sound terrible when played and I can't understand why they give preferences to certain original editions that are clearly wrong compared to the autograph and no corrected copy was ever written by Chopin. However, these editions are also out of date: they claim to be a complete works edition but do not contain the complete works (waltzes and nocturnes, for example). I can't imagine you are not able to find them.
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