Issues : Corrections in A
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b. 2-18
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composition: Op. 28 No. 6, Prelude in B minor
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Initially, Chopin marked the two-quaver motifs with an accent and a slur – as he did in b. 1 – also in b. 2-6, 11-16 and 18. All those markings were then crossed out – after the three accent/slur combinations in b. 1, Chopin left only one more at the end of b. 22, which, actually, gave it a special meaning. category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information issues: Corrections in A , Deletions in A |
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b. 2-6
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composition: Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major
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Thanks to the crossings-out and added notes in b. 2 and 6 visible in A, we can reconstruct the initial version of the last beat of these bars as category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information issues: Corrections in A , Deletions in A , Main-line changes |
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b. 2-3
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composition: Op. 28 No. 16, Prelude in B♭ minor
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In A one can see crossed-out pedalling markings, according to which the pedal should be changed every half bar – 3 times category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information issues: Corrections in A , Deletions in A |
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b. 3-4
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composition: Op. 24 No. 1, Mazurka in G minor
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Visible in A is the erased original version of the accompaniment, in which both bars had G crotchet with a staccato dot falling on the 1st beat. Both bars also had pedalling analogous to the pedalling preserved in adjoining bars. The notation before the change was as follows:
category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information issues: Corrections in A , Accompaniment changes |
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b. 3
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composition: Op. 10 No 7, Etude in C major
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The f1-g1 second in A is most probably the original version of the 3rd semiquaver. In analogous bar 36 Chopin changed it to an f1-b1 fourth already in A. The traces of corrections are also visible in bar 3, yet the f1-a category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Corrections in A , Authentic corrections of FE |
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. The idea of changing it probably arose when Chopin was writing b. 6; afterwards, he introduced a respective correction in b. 2. It is proven by the notation of an analogous figure in b. 10, in which the final version was written right away, without corrections.
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1 third was removed, probably written by mistake. In bar 11, in which the 1st phrase appears one octave higher, the f2-b2 fourth is immediately written in