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b. 220-243

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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These bars – from the 2nd quaver in b. 220 – have their prototype in the second part of AImaz. In this autograph they were written down – as was the case with the first phrase corresponding to b. 200-206 – half a tone lower (from B major in b. 220-226 to E major in b. 236-243) and with numerous differences with respect to the final version of the Polonaise. We discuss them in separate notes, providing the pitch after transposition half a tone higher, to the key visible in the main text and sources of the entire Polonaise.

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

b. 220-242

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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The final version and AImaz differ in the use of dotted rhythms ( or  or similarly in twice as big rhythmic values). In two places the dotted rhythm was eventually replaced with even values – in b. 220 and 227. The opposite occurred five times – in b. 231, 234-235, 241 (the 2nd and 3rd beats) and 242 (the 1st beat).

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Dotted or even rhythm

b. 220-221

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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In A, there are no rests in the top voice. Chopin would often omit such rests in obvious situations; however, he was not always consistent – cf. b. 216 (without rests) and 218 (with a rest). Anyways, the two-part notation is marked by the direction of the stems. This notation was reproduced by FE, yet rests were added in b. 221, perhaps at Chopin's request. Therefore, in this situation b. 220 having been left without a rest must be considered an inadvertence, hence, to avoid doubts, we add a rest also in this bar in the main text. In GE and EE the absence of a rest prompted the engravers to make the stem of the c minim point upwards, which turned an inaccurate notation into a wrong notation.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

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

b. 220-221

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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In A (→FE) there are neither cautionary naturals to f1(2) nor flats lowering a2 to a2 (in both bars) in the main text. GE added all the above accidentals; in addition, a  was added to f3. EE, in turn, added both flats and a  to f1.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Inaccuracies in A , Errors repeated in FE

b. 220

composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor

Quavers in A (→GE) & EE2

Crotchet in FE (→EE1)

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The FE (→EE1) version, identical to the one in bar 204, is almost certainly earlier and was changed by Chopin in A after [FC] had been finished. Such rhythmic changes to the melody, introduced in the last stage of works on a piece, are to be found in Chopin's pieces on a number of occasions – see the Mazurka in G minor, Op. 24 No. 1, bar 59. The corrections visible here in A seem to concern a different version, probably erroneous – Chopin probably deleted here the a1 and g1 crotchets.  

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Corrections in A , Deletions in A