Issues : Dedications
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composition: Op. 27 No 1, Nocturne in C# minor
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Both the sentimental title "Les Plaintives" and the description 7e Nocturne placing the Nocturne on the list of the works of that genre published by Chopin are definitely an arbitrary addition by the publisher of EE. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Dedications , Various titles |
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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Both versions of the dedication are probably authentic; the version of FE may be a later one. The question why the dedication was missing from EE is difficult to answer, category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Dedications |
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composition: Op. 45, Prelude in C♯ minor
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Not being sure of the spelling of the last name of the princess, Chopin asked Fontana (in the letter dated 6 Oct. 1841) to find it out from the princess herself or from her governess: "I don't know how Mme Czerniszew spells her name [...]: is it Tscher, or Tcher? [...], whether it is Elisabeth, and whether Tschernischef, or ff [...]". As GE and FE2 differ in that respect, it seems natural to assume that the later-published FE2 presents the spelling checked by Chopin. The dedication in EE2 was repeated after GE. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Dedications |
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composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major
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Neither the person nor the surname of the dedication's addressee in PE are known to Chopinologists. It cannot be excluded that the dedication is an addition of the publisher – we know a couple of examples of arbitrarily added dedications by publishers even in the pieces issued during Chopin's life (by Wessel in London). category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Dedications |
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composition: Op. 10 No 1, Etude in C major
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In the main text we give the title as adopted in FE and confirmed in the engraver's copy of several Etudes (No. 5-8 and 12). The title included in CLI, although earlier, is also authentic – Chopin himself described in this way one of his etudes in a letter to a friend – and reflects Chopin's pragmatic approach to the issue of the pieces' names (cf. the original title of Berceuse Op. 57, "Variants"). Therefore, it is hard to assume that the extended titles of GE and EE were something more than a marketing ploy of the publishers, which, after all, were gladly used also in case of other genres, e.g., in waltzes, in which the authentic titles were extended with different adjectives: 'grande' in Op. 18, 24, 42, 'brillante' in Op. 34, 'nouvelle' in Op. 42 (see also Etudes Op. 25). We also give this dedication in the version of FE (→GE). Its extension in EE seems to be rather an idea of the publisher who, however, could have agreed it with Chopin. Apart from FE1 (→EE2→EE3), the erroneous initial of Liszt's name (J) also appears in some copies of FE2 and GE1. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Dedications , GE revisions , Various titles |
