Xaver Scharwenka has edited Klindworth for the London
edition of Augener & Co. Mikuli criticised the Tellefsen edition,
yet both men had been Chopin pupils. This is a significant fact
and shows that little reliance can be placed on the brave talk
about tradition. Yet Mikuli had the assistance of a half dozen of
Chopin's "favorite" pupils, and, in addition, Ferdinand Hiller.
Herman Scholtz, who edited the works for Peters, based his
results on careful inspection of original French, German and
English editions, besides consulting M. Georges Mathias, a pupil
of Chopin. If Fontana, Wolff, Gutmann, Mikuli and Tellefsen, who
copied from the original Chopin manuscripts under the supervision
of the composer, cannot agree, then upon what foundation are
reared the structures of the modern critical editions? The early
French, German and Polish editions are faulty, indeed useless,
because of misprints and errata of all kinds. Every succeeding
edition has cleared away some of these errors, but only in Karl
Klindworth has Chopin found a worthy, though not faultless,
editor.
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