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b. 195

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

Slur & dots in A & EE

No markings in FE (→GE)
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The missing slur and dots in FE (→GE) must be an oversight by the engraver; he also overlooked a slur in the previous bar. The markings were added by EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE

b. 195-205

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

No L.H. slurs in A (→FE→GE,EE1→EE2)

L.H. slurs in EE3
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In the main text we add slurs to the staccato dots with which the pairs of L.H. crotchets are marked in these bars (Chopin wrote such slurs only in the 2nd halves of b. 196, 198 and 200). We provide an extensive justification of this decision in the note concerning b. 9-21. As was the case there, slurs were added here also by EE3 (except for the 2nd half of b. 199).
Isolated cases of adding slurs, probably resulting from the engravers' mistakes, are visible in GE1a in the 2nd half of b. 195, in GE (including in GE1a) in the 2nd half of b. 201 and in FE and all the remaining editions in b. 202. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE , FE revisions

b. 195-197

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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In A one can see deleted slurs over the pairs of D crotchets in the 1st halves of b. 195 and 197. According to us, it does not mean that the articulation of those crotchets is to be different from the preceding similar pairs in b. 194 and 196. The removal of the slurs was aimed at maintaining a consistent notation of the entire section (b. 194-205), compliant with the notation applied in b. 9-21, in which the L.H. part slurs are put only where the accompanying pairs of crotchets, provided with slurs, are absent in the R.H.

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Deletions in A

b. 195-200

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

No L.H. slurs in A (→FE→GE)

Slurs in EE
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The slurs added by EE (in the L.H. part) over the d1-c1 motifs in b. 195-196 and the d1-e1 motifs in b. 199-200 were arbitrarily added during the revision of EE, what is more, inconsistently – slurs were not added in b. 201-205.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 195

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Earlier version in AsI

Added version in AsI

Remaining sources
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There are two versions in AsI – the earlier one, written in normal-sized notes, which we consider to be the text of this source, and the later one, marked with additional small notes. This second version, almost identical to the one added in AsI in bar 179, can be considered a first attempt at the final version appearing in other sources. The notation of the second version is not univocal:

  • The presence of the note c2 in the 2nd semiquaver of the lower voice is not clearly indicated. We assume that the intended voice leading on the 2nd quaver of the bar corresponds to the final version.
  • We add the tie sustaining the grace note b1 following the more precise notation in bar 179.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accompaniment changes , Main-line changes , Corrections of AI