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b. 1

composition: Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

Arpeggio sign in A (→FE→EE)

No marking n FC (→GE)
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Fontana overlooked the arpeggio mark in FC (→GE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC

b. 1

composition: Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

No fingering in A (→FE,FC→GE)

Fingering in EE

Fingering written into FED

Our suggestion based on FED
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In the main text we include the Chopinesque fingering entered into FED (we omit the 321 digits in the 1st half of b. 2, repeated after an identical figure in the 2nd half of b. 1). The same fingering, marked with a greater number of digits, was added in EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Annotations in FED

b. 1

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

a-c1 tied in A (→FE→EE)

a-c1 repeated in FC (→GE1)

c1 tied in GE2 (→GE3)
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The missing ties of the a-c1 third must be Fontana's mistake in FC (→GE1). GE2 (→GE3) added only the tie of c1; perhaps it is a result of an incompletely implemented revision – in analogous b. 35 both ties were added.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Errors of FC

b. 1-2

composition: Op. 28 No. 21, Prelude in B♭ major

Slur from f to c1 in A

Slur from B1 to c1 in FC (→GE)

Slur from f to B in FE (→EE)
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In the main text we give the slur of FE (→EE), since the vast majority of subsequent slurs, present in a similar context, is led to the 1st quaver in the next bar in A – out of 13 slurs in b. 1-12 and 15, it is only the slurs in b. 1, 8 and 10 that end on the 6th quaver; two (in b. 6 and 9) are ambiguous. We consider all the above slurs to be inaccurate, since the differences in the range of slurs are not related to the structure of motifs, e.g. the shorter slurs in b. 1 and 8 are opposed by the longer ones in similar figures in b. 2 and 7. Moreover, in A one can see corrections – the slurs in b. 4-5 and 5-6 were being extended (in b. 3-4 probably too). Along with the crossed-out staccato dot at the beginning of b. 2, it may indicate that the concept of markings of those figures changed from  to . Consequently, the aforementioned shorter slurs would be uncorrected elements of the initial slurring.
The slur beginning from the 1st quaver is an inaccuracy of Fontana, repeated in the next three bars too.   

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Corrections in A , FE revisions , Omitted correction of an analogous place , Inaccuracies in FC

b. 1-4

composition: Op. 28 No. 21, Prelude in B♭ major

No fingering in A (→FE,FC→GE)

Fingering in EE
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The sequences of dyads in the L.H., and further also in the R.H., were provided with a detailed fingering in EE. However, nothing indicates that it could be authentic.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions