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b. 7

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering
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The fingering above the trill, written in FED most probably by Chopin, is a simplified notation, generally indicating the fingers with which the trill is to be played. It absolutely does not mean that the e3 note is to be repeated after d3 at the beginning of the trill. One can see another sign in this copy, which may be a fingering digit: the dash under the first d3 grace note may be considered a one. However, such an interpretation carries a risk of uncertainty, therefore, we do not include it in the main text.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 7-8

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

Slurs from 2nd quaver in A & GE2

Slurs from 1st quaver in GE1 (→FE)

Different slurs in EE
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In A the vast majority of the beginnings of the slurs in the L.H., both in the figures embracing the whole bar and in the half-bar ones, does not include the bass note, usually provided with a staccato dot. Despite the fact that Chopin would not always put them precisely (e.g., a slur in bar 8), their systematical reproduction in GE1 (→FE→EE) as whole- or half-bar rather does not correspond to his intention (cf. the characterization of GE1), which was noticed in GE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , EE inaccuracies

b. 7-17

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

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In A the presence of staccato dots over the bass notes in all figures of this type, both whole-bar (bars 7-8) and half-bar (bars 9-13, 15 and 17) is beyond any doubts, although one is missing (the second in bar 9, over B) and two other are placed over the notes that were deleted in the original version (the first in bars 10 and 15). In GE1 (→FE) the majority of them were omitted (only the dots in bars 8, 11-12 and 17 remained). EE and GE2 include versions close to the main text: in EE only the first dot in bar 13 is missing, while in GE2 – the one in bar 15.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE , GE revisions

b. 7

composition: Op. 19, Bolero

Crotchet in FE (→EE)

Quaver in GE
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The engraver of GE undoubtedly overlooked the crotchet stem of g in the L.H.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE

b. 7

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt III

3 fingering digits in A (→GE) & EE2 (→EE3)

1 digit in FE (→EE1)
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The first two fingering digits missing in this bar is certainly an oversight of FE (→EE1). The digits were added in EE2 (→EE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE