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Issues : Errors repeated in EE

b. 70

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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The flat restoring e1 is only in AsI, which means that neither Chopin nor the revisers of the editions noticed this obvious mistake.

category imprint: Interpretations within context

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors of A , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in FE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 72

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt II

No  in sources

 suggested by the editors
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The absence of the  raising the top note of the mordent from a2 to a2 in the sources is almost certainly an inaccuracy in this context. Such imprecise notation of ornaments – grace notes, mordents, trills or turns – is a quite frequent phenomenon in Chopin's pieces, cf. e.g. the Nocturne in C minor, op. 27, no. 1, bar 75 or the Sonata in B minor, op. 35, the 2nd mov., bar 54.

category imprint: Interpretations within context

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Omission of current key accidentals , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 73-74

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

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In the main text we add a cautionary  before b2 in b. 73. The accidental was already added in GE as well as in EE2. Moreover, we add flats lowering c1 to c1 in b. 73 and c to c in b. 74, overlooked in FE. The former was added both in GE and EE, while the latter only in GE and EE2.

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

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , Errors repeated in EE

b. 75

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

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The sources are lacking in the  raising b to b, which is a patent inaccuracy. The same in b. 219.

category imprint: Interpretations within context

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , Inaccuracies in FE , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 75

composition: Op. 63 No. 1, Mazurka in B major

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As in bars 7 and 15, the sources do not include sharps over the mordents. Regardless of the position of the  – see the adjacent note – there are no doubts as to the sound of the top note, hence in the main text and the versions 'edited text' of AI and GE3 we add the necessary accidentals.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in EE