mUltimate Chopin

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Select: 
Category
All
Graphic ambiguousness
Interpretations within context
Differences between sources
Editorial revisions
Corrections & alterations
Source & stylistic information
Notation
All
Pitch
Rhythm
Slurs
Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
Verbal indications
Pedalling
Fingering
Ornaments
Shorthand & other
Importance
All
Important
Main
Undo Clear

b. 187

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

No mark in FE (→GE)

Wedge on b2 in EE
..

Like in b. 43, of which the discussed bar is a literal repetition, in the main text we add a wedge next to b2. The mark was also added in EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions

b. 187

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

No indication in AI, AF, GE & EE

slentando in FE
..

The indication slentando must be a Chopinesque addition introduced in the last stage of proofreading of FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

b. 187-188

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

2 slurs in GE

Continuous slur in FE (→EE)
..

In the main text we give the R.H. slurring after GE – a slur/tenuto in b. 186-187 and a longer slur starting from b. 188. Such a solution is supported by the following arguments:

  • The presence of the slur/tenuto, frequently used by Chopin, points to a high likelihood of authenticity of such slurring. In turn, the continuous slur of FE could have resulted from the engraver having misunderstood such a non-standard notation.
  • It is also the mistakes and inaccuracies of FE in the reproduction of the slurs concerning grace notes (see the note at the beginning of b. 186) that question the credibility of FE in this place, indicating a possible inaccuracy of the basis and insufficient control of the text in the edition. It justifies the choice of one source in the case of all slurs in b. 186-188.
  • The slurs of GE are compliant with the slurring of similar motifs in b. 206-208, present in all sources.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Tenuto slurs

b. 187

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

Long accent in A

No mark in FE (→GE,EE)

Our variant suggestion
..

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Errors in FE

b. 187

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

5 dots in A

10 wedges in GE (→FE,EE,FESB)
..

Both the use of wedges instead of dots and the provision of all demisemiquavers with them are results of a routine approach of the engraver of GE, who considered the notation of A to be inaccurate. It is noteworthy that Chopin used dots to emphasise the bass line. See also Var. IV, b. 208-211.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions