Looking to purchase ENTIRE Chopin piano Collection(NOT DIGITAL)

[solstyce]

Anyone know where I could purchase an entire collection of Chopin Sheet music? Like a set of books? I don't want digital. I want books. Printing stuff out and trying to turn pages out of a makeshift book is just to hard. 

[stevebob]

Many music publishers have offered complete (or near-complete) editions of Chopin’s entire corpus of work, though some volumes may presently be out of print or may have passed into the public domain (e.g., the editions of Chopin’s student Karol Mikuli published by G. Schirmer).

Currently, your best bet is probably the Paderewski editions (printed and/or distributed in the U.S. for the Polish publisher PWM by the Theodore Presser Company):

https://www.presser.com/marketing/keyboard/chopin/paderewski.htm

Many of the imported volumes in this set are quite costly, but, by the same token, some of them may be of scant interest to most pianists (e.g., the songs, chamber music and compositions for piano and orchestra).

One can certainly put together a less expensive set by selecting from among various publishers, but not all sources are of equal quality.  While the Paderewski editions aren’t everyone’s favorite choice, their accuracy and scholarship is well recognized and generally reliable.

[quantum]

I too would suggest the Paderewski.  Unless you are planning to be a serious Chopin scholar there are probably some volumes you do not need, such as the orchestral parts 

Another suggestion would be the National Edition of Chopin Works (Ekier edition), published by PWM.  It is a very recently published scholarly edition. 

[thalbergmad]

If you buy the Paderewski Edition, you will also need to buy a few hundred yards of sticky tape as the covers don't stay on for long and the paper is inferior quality.

At least, they were 10 years ago.

Thal

[birba]

If you buy the Paderewski Edition, you will also need to buy a few hundred yards of sticky tape as the covers don't stay on for long and the paper is inferior quality.

At least, they were 10 years ago.

Thal

Tell me about it!  But it takes more than sticky tape to hold the thing together.  It practically has to be rebound.  I, personally, find the Durand dependable.  And the paper and binding of higher quality.

[thalbergmad]

Yep, you are right. I have just got one of my Paderewski edtions off my shelf and the covers have fallen off again, despite yards of sticky tape.

I am sure there are documents in King Tuts Tomb that are in a better state of preservation than my 10 year old books.

Thal

[richard black]

I don't think Henle publishes the complete Chopin (yet) but their books are well edited, well printed and well made and I have never yet regretted buying one.

[thalbergmad]

I don't think Henle publishes the complete Chopin (yet) but their books are well edited, well printed and

Bleedin' expensive.

Thal

[richard black]

Expensive? Henle? I find them quite reasonable - certainly not by any means the dearest. I don't mind forking over £18.75 for about 230 pages of Mozart violin sonatas, for instance (most recent purchase of one of theirs). They're a long way short of the highway robbers that are some French publishers. I still haven't got over paying £6.50 for a three-page Poulenc song - one piece of paper, folded, no cover. I've bought whole bloody operas for hardly more than that!

[thalbergmad]

Indeed, for 3 pages that is a little excessive.

Thal