The mUltimate Chopin project takes further the idea of the National Edition and develops it on the basis of modern media.
The project name is a play on words in English, but is perfectly understandable for educated audience speaking other languages. It combines two elements:
- ‘multi’, which stands for multitude and diversity – the project presents a wealth of sources (autographs, first editions, teaching copies with Chopin’s remarks) in the form of scans, shows various stages of their analysis and reading, offers insight into many different versions of particular fragments, making use of multimedia techniques (e.g. the possibility of listening to different recorded versions),
- ‘ultimate’, which stands for final – the project finally eliminates potentially subjective influences of various editors on Chopin’s text and thus the result will be the conclusive Chopin urtext.
