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Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

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Issues : Annotations in teaching copies

b. 60

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

No fingering for teaching purposes

Fingering written into GET

FES

FED

A combination of complementary entries
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The numerals entered into the three teaching copies surely describe one fingering (Chopin's), so we give all of them combined in the main text.  

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FES , Annotations in GET

b. 61

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

No accent in A (→GE→FE→EE)

The accent for  f1  added in  FED

The editors' variant suggestion
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 66

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

Fingering written into  FES

No fingering for teaching purposes provided
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 70-71

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

A more precise version of the fingering in GET

Fingering written into FES, bar 73

Fingering in FED

Complementary fingerings combined

Version without teaching fingering
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In the main text we give the fingering collected from complementary entries in GET, FED and FES (the entry in FES relates to an analogous fragment in bar  73 – cf. General Editorial Principles, p. 17). The numeral 5 entered in GET over the second semiquaver of bar 71  definitely means the change of fingers on the a flat2 crotchet, and therefore we add a tiny slur next to it.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FES , Annotations in GET

b. 71

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

The lower slur of A, interpreted in context

The lower slur in GE and EE

FE

A possible interpretation of the slur in FEJ
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When read literally, the lower voice slur in A embraces just five semiquavers,  up to g flat2, which is probably one of quite many inaccuracies to be found in that part of the manuscript. In GE (and EE) the slur embraces six semiquavers, and in FE it reaches up to the crotchet e flat2, which seems most natural in the light of slurring of analogous motifs of the upper voice. The mark added in FEJ may, but does not necessarily have to, be a slur.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , Inaccurate slurs in A , EE inaccuracies , Authentic corrections of FE , Annotations in FEJ