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b. 56

composition: Op. 26 No 1, Polonaise in C♯ minor

Fingering written into FEJ & FES.

No teaching fingering
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Chopin added the fingering in pencil in FEJ. A similar annotation is also in FES.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEJ

b. 58

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

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FEJ has octave signs (8)​ written and crossed out under the1st and the 7th quaver. Those signs were probably mistakenly written one bar too early. 

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEJ

b. 58

composition: Op. 45, Prelude in C♯ minor

d1-d2 in FE (→EE1)

d1-d2 in GE, EE2 & FEJ
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The flats lowering d1-d2 to d1-d2 is an error of the engraver of FE1 (→FE2,EE). It is proven by the version of GE and Chopin's hand-written correction in FEJ. The correct text was also introduced into EE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Errors in FE , Annotations in FEJ

b. 59-60

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

No octaves in  A (→GE→FE→EE)

Two octaves in FED and FEJ

Three octaves in FES

The editors' variant proposal
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In the three teaching copies, the bass notes in  bar 59 were doubled with lower octaves. In FES the octave progression is consistently brought to the beginning of bar 60. In our opinion this means that Chopin considered the version with the octaves at least equivalent to the version of A (→GE→FE→EE), in which single notes appear.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FES , Authentic post-publication changes and variants , Annotations in FEJ , Bass register changes , Abbreviated octaves' notation

b. 69

composition: Op. 26 No 1, Polonaise in C♯ minor

'4' written into FEJ

No teaching fingering
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The not too legible sign in FEJ, written in pencil, is most probably a digit indicating the 4th finger for e2. We do not give it in the main text, as the application of this fingering depends on including other entries in this copy, discussed separately, concerning the bottom notes of the chords on the 5th and 6th quavers.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEJ