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Issues : Annotations in FEJ

b. 13

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

The triplet slur in A (→GE→FE→EE)

The phrasing slur added in FEJ
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The slur added in FEJ is, in the editors' opinion, not only a teaching remark but an improvement of imperfect notation.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Authentic post-publication changes and variants , Annotations in FEJ

b. 13

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

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W FE, the last semiquaver of the left hand is erroneously written under the last demisemiquaver of the right hand. The line added in FEJ indicates the correct synchronisation of both hands.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Synchronization markings , Annotations in FEJ

b. 13

composition: Op. 28 No. 6, Prelude in B minor

No indications in A (→FC→GE, →FE→EE) & CGS

in FEJ

 &  in FES

( & ) – our variant suggestion
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Both versions of the dynamic indications written in the teaching copies point to the use of the echo effect. In the main text we give the indications of FES, in which the idea of contrast is expressed in a clearer form.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEJ

b. 15

composition: Op. 28 No. 6, Prelude in B minor

Fingering written into FEJ

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering

Our variant suggestion based on FEJ & FES
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In the main text we include the fingering of FES and FEJ, differing only in the way the 1st note of the phrase is attacked. Admittedly, FES marked the fingering only for the 1st note of the bar, yet the compliance of both versions of the fingering further on results from the entries in FES in analog. b. 19-20.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Differences in fingering , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEJ

b. 16-18

composition: Op. 28 No. 6, Prelude in B minor

Fingering written into FEJ

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering

Our variant suggestion based on FEJ & FES
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In the ending of the phrase, starting from the last semiquaver in b. 16, FEJ and FES present completely different fingering versions. The only point in common, the 5th finger on D in b. 17, allows us to consider the fingering used before and after independently – e.g. the 1st finger can be used only just on A, as it is done in FES, but end with the 3rd finger on F, which was indicated in FEJ. In turn, the 3rd finger written in FEJ at the beginning of b. 18 does not combine with the second, with which the previous F note was marked in FES. In the FES itself, the minim G in bar 18 is not marked with fingering – the sign below it do not form a digit in our opinion – so both notes in b. 18 were possibly to be performed with the 1st finger, clearly separating the phrases, in accordance with the slurring. It cannot be ruled out that one of the lines written there underlines such a separation.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Differences in fingering , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEJ