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b. 145

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

No slur in GE1 (→FE)

Slur in EE & GE2
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The slur in the 2nd half of the bar, added in GE2 and EE is certainly arbitrary, although the analogy with the 1st half of the bar certainly encourages an addition. However, it is puzzling that the reviser of EE added a slur from the 2nd quaver, although in the 1st half of the bar EE has a slur from the 1st quaver.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions

b. 145

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

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None of the sources includes the correct notation of accidentals, although omissions do not impede the interpretation. In A there is no  raising d1 to d1 on the 4th quaver (it is also absent before the 7th quaver) and d2 to d2 at the end of the group of demisemiquavers. In GE (→FE) the last sign was added and a  before d on the 6th quaver was repeated, whereas GE2 removed the superfluous  before the second b2. EE is closest to the correct notation, in which the only inaccuracy, perhaps resulting from a different approach to such situations, is a missing  before d1 on the 7th quaver – a  already appeared in this bar before a note at this pitch, yet in another clef (on the 4th quaver).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions

b. 145

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

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In the main text we add a cautionary  before g1.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 145-146

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

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 145

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

New slur from c2 in A

New slur from d2 in GE (→FE→EE)
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The earlier division of the slur in the editions is certainly a result of distraction of the engraver of GE1, who, seeing a similarly shaped group of four notes, gave a third consecutive four-note slur. The slurs probably indicate here the following rhythmic grouping of this 18-note figure: 4-4-5-5.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE