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Issues : Errors repeated in FE

b. 113-115

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

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In bars 113 and 115 Chopin overlooked naturals raising d3 to d3. This patent mistake was not rectified in any of the editions.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Editorial revisions

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

b. 117-118

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

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None of the sources returned b1 in bar 117 and b2 in bar 118, which is a patent oversight. In turn, EE added cautionary flats before the next semiquaver in both bars, b2 and b3 respectively. We include the second of the signs in the main text.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

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

b. 118

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In A (→GC,FE) there is no  raising B to B. The inaccuracy was corrected in EE and GE.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , Errors repeated in FE

b. 124

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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In A (→FE), there is not a single accidental in the R.H. passage in the entire 2nd half of the bar. This simplified notation was supplemented both by GE and EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

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

b. 134

composition: Op. 50 No. 3, Mazurka in C♯ minor

G without slur in AF

Rest in GE

G with slur in FE (→EE)
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It is difficult to say which version of the 1st beat of the bar is later and whether Chopin considered any of them to be final. According to us, when the G bass note is played, it distorts the rhythmic scheme of this phrase, in which the accented quaver triplet, which is the local climax, is exposed against the L.H. rest. Chopin could have inserted this crotchet to compensate its absence in the previous bar – cf. b. 9 and 101 – later, however, in [AG] (→GE) he considered keeping the phrase's rhythm to be more important.
A similar issue can also be found in b. 139.

In FE (→EE) this G note is the starting point of a slur, which is a mistake. Moreover, the bass clef was not reintroduced here in AF (→FE→EE), which is Chopin's patent mistake.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Errors of A , Accompaniment changes , Errors repeated in FE , Errors repeated in EE