Best publisher of Chopin Etudes?

[poiuytrewq11zc]

which publisher do you recommend for the Chopin etudes?

[keyboardclass]

If you want something authentic go for: https://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/

[poiuytrewq11zc]

I'm looking to purchase my own book of the Etudes, and am searching for the overall best publisher. I don't know if a Chopin urtext exists, or perhaps the most authentic edition would come from a Polish publisher. If someone can help me with this, I'd greatly appreciate it

[stringoverstrung]

whatever edition you choose, you should also have a copy of Chopin éditions de travail from Cortot éditions Salabert at hand even if only for the fingerings.

[pianoplayjl]

Perhaps Cortort's edition because it has comprehensive studies & discussion on music and technique of his etudes or even Schirmer's edition. The good thing I think about cortorts edition is that there are 'mini' exercises' to prepare for each etude, being each mini etude is unique.

[49410enrique]

yes there's Henle, i'll pretty much never say Henle is bad, but for Chopin you can do better, and cheaper.

Theodore Pressor puts out reprints of the Paderewski editions for about 10 dollars a volume new.

You can find clean originals very inexpensively if you dig around the used scores avenues (used bookstores, amazon, ebay, etc.).

if you're looking for good learning editions, i.e. student scores (as in  you won't be performing at a large highly acclaimed competitions where the judges will quickly tell you "chopin did not write that..."), the the alfred masterworks editions are solid inexpensive options.

on the Henle Verlag Urtext side, i do really like those hard cover clothbound versions, man those are nice, ultra expensive but they'd probably last a few days past forever.

[pytheamateur]

The National Edition by Jan Ekier is also very good.  This is the authorised version from Poland with detailed commentary on different editions, on performance and fingering suggestions.  There's already a thread about it and about how to order it from the Chinese Amazon site for a reasonable price.  If you are interested let me know and I will show you the link.