mUltimate Chopin

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Issues : Errors repeated in EE

b. 311

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

No marks in AsI & A

Wedges in GE (→FE,EE)
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The wedges, added to the bass crotchets in GE1 certainly by mistake, were strangely consistently repeated by all the remaining editions. The source of the mistake could be the first crotchet stem, to f, which in A does not reach the notehead and therefore could have been considered a wedge.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in FE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 313

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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The  overlooked by Chopin before the last semiquaver (e2) was added only in FESB and GE3.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

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

b. 320

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

Rhythm in A, literal interpretation

Rhythm in A, probable interpretation

Rhythm in A, interpretation suggested by the editors

GE1 (→FE→EE), contextual interpretation, GE2
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The first note in the top voice in A (→GE1→FE→EE) is an erroneous double dotted quaver. Moreover, the assignment of the middle note in the 1st chord is unclear; e2 – the head, devoid of a stem, could be combined with a2 in the top voice (as in the previous bar) or with d2 in the bottom one (as in analogous bar 170). The editions repeated the layout of the previous bar, at the same time assimilating the value of e2 with a2. The editors of mUltimate Chopin are inclined to the second possibility, suggesting in the main text a solution fully analogous with the version from the exposition.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Rhythmic errors , Errors of A , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in FE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 321-322

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In A there are no accidentals to the last semiquaver on each beat of the bar – Chopin considered the accidentals written to the earlier notes placed an octave lower to be valid (AsI is slightly more accurate, since it includes a  to c2 in bar 321). In GE1 (→FE,EE) these accidentals were added only just starting from g2, the last semiquaver in bar 321. In GE2 (→FESB) a  to e2 was also added, while in GE3 also a  to c2.
In the main text we give all the omitted accidentals and omit the unnecessarily repeated  to f2 at the beginning of the last R.H. triplet.
There is a similar situation in bars 324-325 and 327-328.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

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

b. 326

composition: Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

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In FE (→EE), there are no naturals raising the A1-A octave to A1-A in the L.H. and the 3rd a​​​​​​​ semiquaver to a in the R.H. The mistake, patent in this context (cf. analogous bar 328), was corrected in GE and EE2 (→EE3).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , Last key signature sign , Errors repeated in EE