mUltimate Chopin

Text Compare Notes Sources Description

Issues : Foreign hand additions in manuscripts

b. 22-30

composition: Op. 30 No. 2, Mazurka in B minor

..

In the main text, we add cautionary naturals before b1 in bars 22 and 30. The reviser of GE1 also added them in FC; they were subsequently introduced in this edition.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts

b. 23

composition: Op. 28 No. 12, Prelude in G♯ minor

..

The  – added in FC most probably in pencil – lowering c2 to c2 is a later addition of H. Scholtz. It should be emphasized that it is highly unlikely that Chopin could have overlooked that  – such an oversight of an accidental defining the sound of a newly introduced key is absolutely uncommon in Chopin's music, let alone in the discussed place, since Chopin took care of precise notation by signalizing the return of g1 with a cautionary sharp, as it was g1 that was present in a few previous bars. Scholtz introduced the version with c2 – completely arbitrary – in the edition of the Preludes that he edited (Peters, Leipzig 1879); it was also popularized by certain later collective editions, e.g. edited by one of Chopin's pupils, Karol Mikuli (Kistner, Leipzig 1879) as well as by a few 20th-century urtexts (!). The reason could have been to avoid the cross-relation of c2 in b. 23 with c1 in b. 24; however, according to us, it is too weak an argument to interfere with the Chopinesque notation to such an extent. See also the note in the next bar.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Foreign hand additions in manuscripts

b. 23-25

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

..

In FC one can see cautionary naturals to a1 in bars 23, 25 and 27, added in pencil. They come from the reviser of GE, and this is the only edition in which they are present. We include them in the main text.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts

b. 31-39

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

..

In FC there are cautionary accidentals written in crayon to the last quaver in bars 31, 35 and 39 (a  to c2 and a  to d2). They come from the reviser of GE1, hence they were included in that edition. EE also include a natural in bar 31; in the main text we give all 3 accidentals.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts

b. 33

composition: Op. 28 No. 17, Prelude in A♭ major

..

In FC (→GE1) the tremolo beam was omitted in the abbreviated notation of repeated quavers. As a result, the L.H. chord is played there only once, at the beginning of the bar. The mistake was corrected in GE2 (→GE3). The beam visible in FC – written most probably in pencil – is a later addition by H. Scholtz.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts , Errors of FC