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b. 457-458

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

3 digits in FE (→GE)

12 digits in EE
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Fontana completed the Chopinesque fingering so that one does not need to guess anything at all.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 457-458

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

No slur in sources

Slur suggested by the editors
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In the main text, we suggest a phrase mark for the L.H., modelled after analogous bars 459-460 and 461-462.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 457-458

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

2 slurs in FE (→EE,GE1→GE2)

Slur in GE3

Slur suggested by the editors
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In the main text, we introduce a simpler notation, which makes it more balanced at the same time, used by Chopin in analogous situations in bars 459-460 and 461-462. The correctness of the slur in bars 459-460 is confirmed by the proofreading (most probably authentic) of the slurring in this place – the traces visible in FE prove that the shorter f1-g slur was removed. In GE3, removal of the slur over the bar line in the discussed place was an arbitrary decision that did not take into account the phrasing of subsequent, analogous phrases.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 458

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

 in EE and GC (→GE)

No marking in FE
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It is hard to determine whether the lack of  in FE was Chopin's omission or it was this edition's error, cf. b. 469.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE

b. 458-459

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

Wedges in A

Dot in GE (→FE→EE)
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In A both c3-f3 fourths were provided with wedges, which, however, may be problematic at the time of interpreting them. The mark in bar 458 looks like a dot, whereas the one in bar 459 like a crotchet stem of the top note pointing upwards. This is how they were interpreted in GE1 (→FE→EE), as a result of which there is no staccato mark in bar 459. In GE2, the dot was preserved in bar 458, yet no staccato mark was added in bar 459, in spite of removing the unnecessary division of the fourth into voices.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Errors in GE , Wedges