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Issues : Foreign hand additions in manuscripts

b. 9

composition: Op. 29, Impromptu in A♭ major

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Before the last c3 in the R.H. in A there is a natural written by someone else. The sign was printed in GE1 and deleted in GE2 (→GE3→GE4). FE and EE are lacking it.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts , Cautionary accidentals

b. 9-33

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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The entire second line of A is missing the octave signs – there is no ending of the sign in bar 9 and an entire one is missing in b. 14-17. There is a similar case in b. 31-33, in which the transition into a new line provoked a mistake in the form of an unfinished octave sign, which began in bar 30. Fontana noticed and corrected only the latter, yet in FC an octave sign was added in pencil also in b. 14-17, probably by the engraver of GE1 (we do not take into account that addition in the transcription of FC, since it belongs rather to GE1). In the editions all mistakes were corrected, in FE perhaps by Chopin's orders, who proofread that edition.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts , Errors of A , Authentic corrections of FE , Fontana's revisions

b. 9

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

No accidental in FC & FE (→EE)

 to c2 in GE
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The cautionary  added in pencil to FC comes from the reviser of GE1, hence we do not include it in the text of the copy. The mark was taken into account only by GE.
The same in bar 45.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts

b. 12

composition: Op. 29, Impromptu in A♭ major

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We add a cautionary natural next to f2 on the 4th quaver of the bar. The sign was added by someone else in A and put in GE.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Corrections & alterations

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts , Cautionary accidentals

b. 12-14

composition: Op. 28 No. 6, Prelude in B minor

No accidentals in A (→FC→GE1)

Naturals in FE (→EE), GE2 (→GE3) & CGS
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The version of A (→FC→GE1), in which these three bars are based on the c-e-g diminished chord, most probably resulted from an oversight of the naturals lowering c to c (in various octaves) by Chopin. The correctness of the version of FE (→EE) is mainly evidenced by three teaching copies bearing clear traces of having been developed with Chopin, in which the C major chord as the harmonic basis of those bars was not questioned; it is also evidenced by CGS, which was written by a person who was both close to Chopin and a witness to the creative process of the cycle of Preludes. The naturals visible in FC are an addition by H. Scholtz, coming from the 1870s. The change introduced in GE2 could have been drawn from FE or a result of an accurate analysis of the harmonic structure of the piece by the reviser.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts , Omission of current key accidentals , Errors of A , FE revisions , Last key signature sign