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b. 105-112

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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These bars are absent in FE1, since in the only known copy coming from that impression, the leaf containing pages nos. 5-6 is missing (the leaf encompasses b. 105-168). In the notes concerning those bars – unless exceptional circumstances arise (requiring a commentary) – we assume that FE = FE2, i.e. FE1 did not differ from FE2. Such a circumstance could be, e.g. a difference between FE2 and EE1 which was based on a proof copy of FE2 not including the latest changes, and thus may convey the version of FE1.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Incomplete sources

b. 105

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

No fingering in A (→GE1→FE,EE)

3-2-1 fingering in GE2 (→FESB)

3-1-2 fingering in GE3
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The fingering added in GE2 (→FESB), whose authenticity is, after all, questionable, must be erroneous in this case. However, it is uncertain whether the mistake consisted in printing a wrong digit (2 instead of 4) or in switching the order of digits (2-1 instead of 1-2). GE3 applied the latter.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 105-109

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In the majority of the sources there is no accidental to the 8th semiquaver in b. 104 and 108. Admittedly, any doubt is dispelled by the following f3 semiquaver, but the absence of the  restoring f3 after f2 at the beginning of the bar must be considered a mistake due to the rule (frequently applied in the sources of the Variations) according to which accidentals are valid at a given pitch regardless of the use of an octave sign – cf., e.g. b. 35, 39 or 335. Therefore, we add them both in the main text and in the content transcriptions of the sources (versions "edited text"). Naturals were also added in GE3.

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

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , Omissions to cancel alteration , GE revisions , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in FE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 105-106

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

  in FC (→GE)

No signs in FE (→EE)
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In the main text we give a pair of   marks entered by Chopin into FC (→GE).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Authentic corrections of FC

b. 105-106

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

d tied in FC (→GE)

d repeated in FE (→EE)
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As in bars 9-10, the missing tie to d is most probably a mistake by FE (→EE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE