Identyfikacja ołówkowych dopisków Chopina w egzemplarzach pierwszych wydań z Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Toruniu
An Investigation of Pencil Annotations Made Probably by Chopin in Copies of First Editions Held in Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Toruń

Summary/Abstract: This article presents pencil annotations in copies of editions of Chopin’s works held in Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Toruń. A meticulous analysis of the annotations, focusing on both the form of the handwriting (numbers, letters, notes, etc.) and also the content of the entries, shows that most of them are authentic. A copy of the Leipzig first edition of the ‘Nocturnes’, Op. 9 is a document of primary importance, containing many handwritten remarks made by Chopin during lessons with his pupils in the first two nocturnes. They include a dozen or so previously unknown textual variants. Annotations of lesser significance are found in a Paris edition of the ‘Nocturnes’, Op. 15 Nos. 1 and 2 and in a Leipzig edition of the ‘Nocturne’, Op. 27 No. 2 and the ‘Mazurkas’, Op. 41.

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