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b. 312-315

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Slur in EE

GC

FE

GE
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The slurs in EE and GC (→GE) end in b. 314, and the slur in GE is placed below the chords (at the note heads). In the main text we present the slur found in FE as undoubtedly the correct one. Compare annotation in bars 296-306.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 312

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

No marking in EE

 in GC (→GE) & FE
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No  marking in EE may be either an omission or echoes one of the earlier stages of the Scherzo notation.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: Errors in EE

b. 312

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

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In A there are no flats lowering g3 to g3 and g1 to g1. This patent inaccuracy was corrected already in GE1 (→FE→EE, →GE2).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , Inaccuracies in A

b. 312

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

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In A the 3rd group of semiquavers is written in an abbreviated manner as a repetition of the second one.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Abbreviated notation of A

b. 312-313

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

Slur c2-b1 in FE (→GE)

Tie to c2 in EE
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Due to the strict analogy between these bars and bars 296-297 (encompassing the entire, several-bar-long fragment), the version of EE, preserving this strict analogy, may correspond to Chopin's intention. In this bar, the slur in bar 313 could have been placed on the wrong side of the c2 crotchet, which would happen in the Chopinesque first editions, cf. e.g. the Concerto in F minor, op. 21, the 3rd mov., bars 172-173. However, in the main text we leave the version of FE (→GE), since both places differ in the orchestral part: in bars 296-297, the tied c2 crotchet is doubled in flute I, whereas in bars 312-313 – it is not. 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Sign reversal