mUltimate Chopin

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Select: 
Category
All
Graphic ambiguousness
Interpretations within context
Differences between sources
Editorial revisions
Corrections & alterations
Source & stylistic information
Notation
All
Pitch
Rhythm
Slurs
Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
Verbal indications
Pedalling
Fingering
Ornaments
Shorthand & other
Importance
All
Important
Main
Undo Clear

b. 325

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

..

In FE (→EE1), there is no  restoring a2 in the last pair of semiquavers. This patent inadvertence was added in GE and EE2 (→EE3). In the same editions, a cautionary  before the 5th semiquaver a1 was also added, which we include in the main text, as well as a  before c3, which does not seem to be necessary. In turn, we preserve the formally unnecessary  before e2 in the 5th pair of semiquavers, present in all editions.  

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

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Omissions to cancel alteration , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 325

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

Fingering written into FEH

No fingering in FE (→GE)

Fontana's fingering in EE
..

Both in EE and FEH, the bar was provided with fingering very carefully, applying the same rule for the top notes of the thirds – the 1st finger on a white key, the 2nd – on a black one (cf. bars 322-324). The fingering of the bottom notes is also very similar – the 3rd finger on a black key and the 4th – on a white one; however, in FEH, the rule is modified when two subsequent white keys appear. As a result, both fingerings differ only in the digit applying to e1.
The last digit in FEH was changed from 3 to 4 – it is most probably a correction of a mistake.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Annotations in FEH

b. 325-326

composition: Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

Slur in FE (literal reading→GE,EE)

Slur in FE, contextual interpretation
..

The extended ending of the slur in FE in bar 325 – in that source it is the last bar on the page – suggests its continuation, unconfirmed, however, by the slurless first half of bar 326. The comparison with analogous bars 321-322 (as well as 329-330) proves that the slur should be continued to the 4th semiquaver of the next bar. The revisers of GE and EE deemed the end of slur in bar 325 inaccurate, and shortened it.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , GE revisions

b. 325

composition: Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

..

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Cautionary accidentals , Last key signature sign

b. 325-326

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

No slurs in GE1

2 slurs in FE (→EE) & GE2
..

The absence of slurs in GE1 must be the engraver's oversight (four similar slurs in b. 323-325 are present in GE1). The mistake was corrected in GE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions