Issues : GE revisions

b. 1

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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The GE1 and GE2 copies were provided with two types of covers – some gave no information that the piece was intended for piano with orchestra (the phrase "avec accompagnement d'orchestre" was removed). The title page of GE3 explicitly informs us that it is a piece for one piano ("pour le piano seul"). The titles of the remaining editions do not contain a mention of the orchestral accompaniment, although in the case of FE1 (→FE2) one can guess that it is included due to the given prices of the orchestral material (in a full version and in a version reduced to string quartet).
In our transcriptions of GE1 and GE2 we take into account the copies providing a complete description, in accordance with A. Where only the piano is mentioned, the relevant part of the title is omitted from our transcriptions – see General Editorial Principlesp. 14.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: GE revisions

b. 1

composition: Op. 30 No. 1, Mazurka in C minor

Quatre Ma­zurkas in FC (→GE) & FE

Souvenir de la Pologne... in EE

4 Mazurkas suggested by the editors

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In all sources the number of mazurkas in the opus is expressed in full word – Quatre Mazurkas, yet in the main text we provide a digit, understandable regardless of the language. What is more, it cannot be excluded that in the autograph (lost) Chopin wrote a digit, as he did in the preserved autographs of opuses 24 and 50, which the French publisher did not respect in opus 24, replacing the digit with a word.

In FC the title contains a mistake – Quatre Mazurka. The title having been expanded in EE was an arbitrary decision of the publisher – all opuses of Chopinesque Mazurkas were named like that.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Errors of FC

b. 1

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

Mazourek with no dedication in AI

3 Mazurkas in FE

Trois Mazourkas in GE

Souvenirs de la Pologne in EEW

Mazurka in EEC

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Dedications , GE revisions

b. 2

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

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In GE (→FE) Chopin's dolce was replaced with the abbreviation dol. In EE the full name of the term was restored.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions

b. 2-14

composition: Op. 10 No 11, Etude in E♭ major

Wedges in A

Dots in FE

GE & EE

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In bars 2-3, 5-6, 10-11 and 13-14 in the main text, we give undeniable wedges written in A (in comparison, Chopin's dots may be seen over the bass notes in bars 1, 5 and analog.). In FE a part of the marks was omitted (in bars 3, 10 and 11) and the rest was interpreted as dots. The changes, according to us, are of a clearly arbitrary nature. GE and EE generally repeat the version of FE, yet they include a dot also in bar 3.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , Wedges