Issues : Errors of FC

b. 1

composition: Op. 28 No. 16, Prelude in B♭ minor

Pedalling in A (→FEEE)

No markings in FC (→GE)

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Fontana overlooked the pedalling markings (as well as almost all performance indications in this bar).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC

b. 1

composition: Op. 28 No. 16, Prelude in B♭ minor

Staccato in A (→FE)

No mark in FC (→GE) & EE

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The missing staccato dot is an oversight of the copyist and the engraver of EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE , Errors of FC

b. 1

composition: Op. 28 No. 16, Prelude in B♭ minor

in A (→FEEE) & GE

No indication in FC

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The absence of  in FC must be the copyist's mistake. It is unclear on what grounds that indication was added in GE – most probably it was a particularly opportune revision.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Errors of FC

b. 1-2

composition: Op. 28 No. 17, Prelude in A♭ major

  in A (→FEEE)

No signs in FC (→GE)

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Fontana overlooked the dynamic hairpins in FC (→GE). The notation of A does not specify the range of the marks, since bar 2 was not written out with notes. We adopt the natural interpretation of FE (→EE).

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins , Errors of FC

b. 1

composition: Op. 30 No. 1, Mazurka in C minor

Quatre Ma­zurkas in FC (→GE) & FE

Souvenir de la Pologne... in EE

4 Mazurkas suggested by the editors

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In all sources the number of mazurkas in the opus is expressed in full word – Quatre Mazurkas, yet in the main text we provide a digit, understandable regardless of the language. What is more, it cannot be excluded that in the autograph (lost) Chopin wrote a digit, as he did in the preserved autographs of opuses 24 and 50, which the French publisher did not respect in opus 24, replacing the digit with a word.

In FC the title contains a mistake – Quatre Mazurka. The title having been expanded in EE was an arbitrary decision of the publisher – all opuses of Chopinesque Mazurkas were named like that.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Errors of FC