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Vintage G Schirmer Chopin Etudes Complete Works Piano Score 1551 Yellow USA
Vintage G. Schirmer softcover piano score from Schirmer\'s Library of Musical Classics presenting Frédéric Chopin Complete Works for the Piano, Book VIII Etudes, Library Vol. 1551.
The yellow card front cover carries the Schirmer\'s Library banner at the top with the heading \'Chopin. Etudes--Bk. 8\' at left, \'Piano\' at right, and centered titling \'Chopin Complete Works for the Piano Book VIII Etudes (Mikuli)\' above the G. Schirmer crest and a printed $3.00 price; a design copyright 1939 by G. Schirmer, Inc. runs along the lower margin beside an Opus 1 Decatur, Georgia dealer imprint.
Publication details on the inner title pages credit G. Schirmer, New York and London, with copyright 1916 and copyright renewed 1943 by G. Schirmer, Inc., and note that the volume was printed in the U.S.A.; the series listing identifies this as part of the Chopin Complete Works sequence alongside Waltzes, Mazurkas, Polonaises, Nocturnes, Ballades and other books.
Preliminary pages include an introductory essay headed \'Frédéric François Chopin\' discussing the composer\'s life and teaching, followed by a thematic index presenting short incipits of each étude with corresponding opus and page references.
The main body of the score offers Chopin\'s complete Etudes for solo piano in standard grand staff notation with expressive markings, tempo indications and fingerings characteristic of the Mikuli edition, suitable for advanced pianists, teachers and collectors of classic Schirmer yellow cover repertoire.
Condition: Pre-owned vintage G. Schirmer softcover piano score from the Chopin Complete Works series with light to moderate cover and edge wear from age and handling. The yellow front wrapper shows surface rubbing, overall paper toning, scattered creases and wrinkles including a long diagonal crease crossing the title panel, soft corner bends and minor nicks along the outer margins and lower edge. Back cover has similar age toning with light shelf soiling, a vertical handling crease near the right side and small edge and corner wear. Interior pages are evenly age toned with ink ownership names on the outer and inner title pages, scattered pencil performance annotations, fingerings and phrasing marks throughout the music and a few pencil lines in the thematic index, while the printed notation remains clear and the folded binding intact for normal study or performance use.
