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Issues : Alterations in GC

b. 83

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

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This bar was written in GC twice. After having noticed the mistake, the first notation was deleted.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Alterations in GC

b. 86

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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The topmost note of the last chord in the R.H. was certainly corrected in GC from a1 to b1. It is hard to state clearly whether it is Gutmann's own correction or whether it was Chopin that noticed and corrected the wrong pitch while reviewing GC. Cf. the note in bar 13.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Inaccuracies in GC , Alterations in GC

b. 89

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

A1 in #C (→GE) & EE3

B1 in FE & EE2 (→EE3)
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The version with A1, present in GC (→GE) and EE3, is almost certainly erroneous:

  • while copying 8 groups 4 semiquavers each in bars 89-90, the copyist, instead of the fourth, fifth and sixth group (the lowest notes B1, A1, E1), rewrote the fifth, sixth and seventh (A1, E1, A1);
  • the mistake was then noticed, yet only partially – two erroneous notes in bar 90 were corrected, yet A1 in bar 89 was left without correction. It is not certain who performed this correction – certain graphical features of the added A1 note at the beginning of bar 90, as well as the way in which the 5th note of this bar was "remade" are characteristic rather for Gutmann.

In the version of FE and EE1 (→EE2), which we give, the accentuated bass notes create a rhythmically simplified base motif of the Etude in bars 89-90: .

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors of GC , Alterations in GC

b. 90

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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The bottom note of the penultimate chord in the R.H. was certainly corrected in GC, probably from d1 to e1. It is hard to state clearly whether it is Gutmann's own correction or whether it was Chopin that noticed and corrected the wrong pitch while reviewing GC. Cf. the note in bar 13.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Inaccuracies in GC , Alterations in GC

b. 118-120

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt II

g in chords in GC (→GE), FE3 (→FE4), FESch & EE2

a in FE1 (→FE2→EE1)
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The version of FE1 (→FE2→EE1) is probably the original version, as it was initially written also in GC, in which it was corrected, probably by Chopin. Interestingly, in GC also the middle crotchets in the R.H. (from f1 to e1) were corrected, which in FE, however, are printed right away in the final version. Therefore, it cannot be excluded that seeing identical chords in the L.H., the copyist considered the crotchets in the R.H. also to be identical. It is even more likely considering the fact that in the manuscrpts only the first of the three bars was written out with notes. The version with g was written also in FESch.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Authentic corrections of FE , Alterations in GC , Authentic corrections in GC , Annotations in FESch