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Issues : Errors of FC

b. 16

composition: Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

Slur in A (→FE→EE) & GE2 (→GE3)

No slur in FC (→GE1)
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The missing slur in FC (→GE1) must be the copyist's oversight. The mark was added in GE2 (→GE3), most probably after FE – see the adjacent note.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Errors of FC

b. 16-19

composition: Op. 28 No. 14, Prelude in E♭ minor

2 signs in bars 16-19 in A

2 signs in bars 16-17 in FC (→GE)

1 sign in bars 16-19 in FE (→EE)
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In A b. 16 ends a line, while the  hairpin ends quite clearly beyond the bar line. Perhaps this was the reason it was combined with the mark in b. 17-19, which resulted in one long . According to us, such an interpretation is unjustified, since in two previous lines the hairpins in A also go beyond the bar line, which is almost certainly merely an inaccuracy (cf. also the inaccurate, overlapping marks in b. 5-6 and 9). Therefore, in the main text we keep the separate marks, particularly since the latter begins only just on the 2nd beat of b. 17. It was also Fontana that did not reproduce the notation of A correctly, since he started writing the mark in b. 17 already at the beginning of the bar, but did not write its ending in b. 18-19.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins , FE revisions , Errors of FC , Inaccuracies in FC

b. 16

composition: Op. 28 No. 17, Prelude in A♭ major

Long accent in A

No mark in FC (→GE)

Short accent in FE (→EE)
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The overlooked accent is one of many oversights of Fontana in this Prelude – cf., e.g. b. 1-2 or 21.
As before, the clear long accent was reproduced in FE (→EE) as a short one.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC

b. 16

composition: Op. 30 No. 2, Mazurka in B minor

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FC is missing the 3rd beat in the L.H., which was supplemented in GE by adding a crotchet rest. It is also FE (→EE) that contain a rest, hence there are no doubts that it was a crotchet rest that the copyist overlooked. Cf. a similar oversight by Fontana in the Mazurka in D no. 3, bar 55.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: GE revisions , Rhythmic errors , Errors of FC

b. 17-18

composition: Op. 25 No 6, Etude in G♯ minor

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In FC (→GE1) and FE there are no sharps returning d2 and c2 in the last group in bar 17 and c2 at the end of bar 18. EE and GE2 (→GE3) include the correct notation, which, in both cases, is a result of an editorial revision – in EE it is likely, in GE2 – certain.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Errors of FC