Mes ennuis, op. 43

This piece by Sor whose full title is Mes ennuis, six bagatelles, op. 43, was first published in Paris in 1830-31. It is another set of six pieces. Once again there are two pieces in the same key followed by a longer one in a different key, and then come three other pieces contrasting in both tempo and key. The title, “Mes ennuis”, or “My cares”, is discussed in the notes to op. 48 in this edition. At the harmonics in No. 3, bars 69-70, in the third chord the figure on the A string is 3 in the original. That cannot be played and in any case gives a note which does not fit harmonically. It is perhaps an engraver’s error, perhaps for 9 which is what I have put here, which is easily playable and which gives a good musical solution. In no. 5, the sharp on the F at bars 14 and 46, and the natural on the F in bars 15 and 47, are editorial. This edition comes from the new 2019 second edition of Sor’s New Complete Works for Guitar edited by Brian Jeffery. The Introduction and Index to the entire series are here in nkoda. This new edition is copyright © by Brian Jeffery 2019. Your cooperation is requested in not making illegal copies for other people. Brian Jeffery