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Issues : EE inaccuracies

b. 8-16

composition: Op. 22, Andante spianato

Long accents in FE (→GE1), contextual interpretation

Short accents in EE & GE2 (→GE3)
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We reproduce the accents in b. 8, 11 and 16 as long ones, although the marks in FE cannot be unequivocally classified as long or short accents (however, they are clearly longer than the accents in b. 52 or 55-62). Long accents are strongly supported by the musical context: the accentuated e3 in b. 8 is the longest and top-most note of the 8-bar phrase, while the syncopated c3 in b. 11 is a similar type of climax of the final melodic section of this phrase. We encounter a similar problem in the evaluation of the accents in GE1: it is only the clearly shorter marks in b. 52 (as well as a greater number thereof in the Polonaise) that convince us to consider them long. The marks in EE and GE2 (→GE3) must be short.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE , EE inaccuracies

b. 8-9

composition: Op. 28 No. 22, Prelude in G minor

Slur from semiquaver in A (→FE,FC→GE)

Slur from crotchet in EE
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The inaccurate, later starting point of the slur in EE is most probably a mistake of the engraver.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE inaccuracies

b. 8-12

composition: Op. 63 No. 3, Mazurka in C# minor

 before 3rd beat of b. 8 & 12 in FE (→GE)

 after 3rd beat in EEW
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The  marks having been placed in bars 8 and 12 after the 3rd crotchet is probably an inaccuracy by the engraver of EEW, who did not realise the change of chord on the 3rd beat of these bars.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE inaccuracies

b. 9-13

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

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The cautionary naturals before c1 in the L.H. were added in bars 9 and 13 in one of the last proofreadings of FE (→GE). They are also included in EE, except for the  overlooked in bar 13 in EE2. The manuscripts do not include any signs in these places. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Cautionary accidentals , EE inaccuracies , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 9-11

composition: Op. 10 No 4, Etude in C♯ minor

 in bars 10-11 in AI

 in bar 9-10 in FE

 in bar 9 in GE

 in bar 9 in EE
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The hairpins of AI, leading to  in bar 11, is an earlier concept of dynamic indications. In the main text we stick to the version of FE, reproduced with minor inaccuracies also in GE and EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , EE inaccuracies