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The world's foremost Chopin editors, under Editor-in-chief John Rink, bring their unrivalled collective knowledge to imbue the project with unique authority, drawing upon the latest international scholarship. The Complete Chopin prioritizes the needs of the practical pianist and provides a beautifully presented performing text of each work based on a single principal source together with important variants, along with thorough critical commentaries and illuminating prefatory essays in English, French and German.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Edition Peters is now delighted to present Roy Howat's new edition for The Complete Chopin of Chopin's Trois Nouvelles Études. Originally published in 1840 in the multi-composer Méthode des Méthodes the Trois Nouvelles Études are Chopin's least overtly virtuoso studies, but arguably they are the most quietly sophisticated of all in terms of how they train the pianist's sensitivity to sound, rhythm and texture. 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In keeping with the editorial procedure of this series, the edition is based on a principal source, the manuscript Chopin carefully prepared for his friend Moscheles; in addition, some changes that Chopin introduced after publication feature here as variants, allowing pianists to choose options in performance in full awareness of where they come from.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Authoritative critical edition based on Chopin's autograph restores Chopin's original text and corrects important pitches wrongly presented in previous editions\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Includes only Chopin's authentic fingerings\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Variants clearly presented as ossias within the main text of each Etude\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Preface by Roy Howat in English, French and German\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Thorough critical commentary\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Complete Chopin is based on two key premises. 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