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Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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Issues : EE revisions

b. 100

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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The g note instead of a in FE1 (→EE1) must be a mistake of the engraver, corrected in subsequent impressions of both editions.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Errors in EE , FE revisions

b. 103-104

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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In FE1 there are no sharps raising d1 to d1 in the L.H. part. The oversight (patent in this context) was corrected in FE2 and EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , FE revisions

b. 104-106

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

Continuous slur in GE & FE2

Incomplete slur in FE1

Separate slurs in EE
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In FE the slur at the end of b. 104, which ends the page, indicates that it should be continued in the next bar. It is confirmed by the slur of FE2 in b. 105-106 (in FE1 the page containing those bars is missing); however, in EE the slurs are separated here. A possible explanation for this discrepancy could have been an oversight of the slur in b. 105-106 in FE1 – the engraver of EE1 could have considered the ending of the slur in b. 104 (without a continuation) to be inaccurate and could have shortened it, whereas the reviser added a slur in b. 105-106 later on, adjusting it to the already printed preceding slur. For this reason, we retain the slur in FE1 unfinished in bars 105-106.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 107

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

Slur from grace note in GE1 & FE

Slur from crotchet in EE & GE2
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The slur starting later in EE and GE2 is most probably due to the publishers' routine revisions. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions

b. 112

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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In the main text we add cautionary naturals to d and d2. We also add a dispensable  to f, in compliance with the notation used by Chopin in analogous b. 88; the accidental was also added in EE2 (→EE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions