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b. 237

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In GE1 (→FE1,GE2), the  raising b1 to b1 is before the 1st third. Interestingly enough, it is not a common mistake but a wrong revision, since the traces of corrections in print (visible particularly in GE2) reveal that initially the text was printed correctly, with a  before the 3rd semiquaver. In FE2, EE, FESB and GE3, the  was moved to the right place, while in EE another natural was added, a cautionary one to g1 in the 1st third. We include this cautionary accidental also in the main text, hence our text is identical to version of EE.

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

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

b. 237-238

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I

No fingering in A (→GE→FE,IE)

Fingering in EE
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In the main text we do not include the inauthentic fingering added by EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 237

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I

Quaver & rest in A

Crotchet in GE (→FE,EE,IE)
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The extension of the e3-c4 sixth almost certainly resulted from the distraction of the engraver of GE1, who overlooked the quaver flag and the rest.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE

b. 237

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I

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The traces of erasure visible in A prove that some marks in the bottom part of the stave were being removed. Perhaps Chopin initially wrote the L.H. part in the 2nd half of the bar an octave lower (by mistake – cf. the Ballade in G minor, Op. 23, bars 159-160).

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A

b. 237

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt IV

No fingering in A (→GE→FE,IE)

Fingering in EE
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In the main text, we do not include the inauthentic R.H. fingering added by EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions