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b. 302

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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We add cautionary naturals to the octave E1-E in the main text.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 302

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

Quaver a1-c2 in GE1 & FE (→EE)

Crotchet a1-c2 in GE2
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As in bar 276, splitting the first chord into two parts – the a1-c2 third forming the upper crotchet – is an arbitrary revision of GE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 302-303

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

Slur in GE1 (literal reading→GE2)

No slur in FE (→GE)

Slur in GE1, contextual interpretation

Slur based on FE, our alternative suggestion
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In the manuscripts these bars were almost certainly marked in an abridged manner as a repetition of b. 68-70. It means that FE (→EE) overlooked the slur here, present in those editions in b. 69-70 (or rather its complete version, since in those bars, in turn, the part of the slur falling on b. 70 was overlooked). We suggest such a slur as an alternative version, while in the main text we give a possible contextual interpretation of the notation of GE1, according to which we consider the slur going beyond the second out of the last four quavers in b. 303 to reach the end of the bar, in accordance with the slurs of FE in b. 44 and 277.  

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

b. 302

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Slur from B-d to d in A

Tie to F in GE1 (→GE2,EE,FE1→FE2)

Slur from B-d to c-e in FESB

Slur from F to c-e in GE3
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The meaning of the slur, which in A clearly concerns the top L.H. voice, is unclear in GE1 (→GE2) – one can see it as a slightly too short tie to the F crotchet at the end of the 1st beat of the bar or an inaccurate slur encompassing three thirds in the top voice. The first interpretation was adopted by FE1 (→FE2) and EE, while the second – by FESB. In GE3 the slur combines the F crotchet with the c-e quaver. In the main text we reproduce the notation of A, confirmed by an analogous figure in the next bar. 

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Errors in GE , FE revisions

b. 302

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In GE1 (→FE1,EE,GE2→GE3,FESB) there is no  restoring d at the beginning of the 3rd beat of the bar. The patent mistake – the absence of this accidental also impacts the sound of the last L.H. semiquaver, resulting in a combo of d1 in the R.H. and d in the L.H. – was noticed only in FE2.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

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