" These dates are given so as to rout effectually any
dilatory suspicion that Liszt influenced Chopin in the production
of his masterpieces. Lina Ramann, in her exhaustive biography of
Franz Liszt, openly declares that Nos. 9 and 12 of op. 10 and
Nos. 11 and 12 of op. 25 reveal the influence of the Hungarian
virtuoso. Figures prove the fallacy of her assertion. The
influence was the other way, as Liszt's three concert studies
show--not to mention other compositions. When Chopin arrived in
Paris his style had been formed, he was the creator of a new
piano technique.
The three studies known as Trois Nouvelles Etudes, which appeared
in 1840 in Moscheles and Fetis Method of Methods were published
separately afterward. Their date of composition we do not know.
Many are the editions of Chopin's studies, but after going over
the ground, one finds only about a dozen worthy of study and
consultation. Karasowski gives the date of the first complete
edition of the Chopin works as 1846, with Gebethner & Wolff,
Warsaw, as publishers. Then, according to Niecks, followed
Tellefsen, Klindworth--Bote & Bock--Scholtz--Peters--Breitkopf &
Hartel, Mikuli, Schuberth, Kahnt, Steingraber--better known as
Mertke's--and Schlesinger, edited by the great pedagogue Theodor
Kullak.
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