Annotated Catalogue of Chopin's First Editions

This massive volume represents over ten years' research into all first editions of Chopin's music held in some 60 libraries and five private collections across the world. The authors started with a notion that some 2,000 scores would be included, but have in fact found more than double that number. It is fitting that publication has happened in the year which marks the bicentenary of the composer's birth, but this volume is not for the interested amateur, rather it is a work of precise and thorough scholarship for the dedicated researcher into Chopin's oeuvre.

The authors' premise appears to be...