Sorry for the delayed response. Have you consulted the French
"Editions pupitre" publication of the Etudes? There are copious
critical notes in it, that may answer your questions.

I'm afraid I know nothing about the "missing Etudes." If something
appeared in "Methode des methodes," then surely lacking a manuscript
source is no excuse for omitting it, since the Moscheles is such a
well-known source...?


-- Andrew


--- In johann_nepomuk_hummel@yahoogroups.com, "r_scherp"
<r_scherp@...> wrote:
>
> I am wondering if anyone knows something specific about the dates of
> composition of the Etudes op.125. Somewhere I read that Hummel played
> some of them for someone else about 1828 and he apparently composed
> six in 1833 to complete the set for publication. The notes to Boehm's
> recording seem to suggest that these six are the ones omitted from the
> Universal edition (g, a, B, c-sharp, E-flat, f), which is odd, because
> it suggests that Universal would have used a manuscript from before
> the summer of 1833 as a source and not the first editions of that year
> or later reprints. Also, Sachs was unable to include the Etude in B-
> flat submitted to Fetis for inclusion in Methode des methodes. Does
> this mean that he could not locate a copy, or that the owner would not
> cooperate in the complete edition? It seems to me that this etude may
> be the one in that key from op.125.
>
> randolph
>