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Issues : EE inaccuracies

b. 331-332

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt III

Slur g1-a1 in A

Slur b-c1 in GE (→FE)

Slur d1-c1 in EE
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The slur of A, although placed under correct notes, undoubtedly concerns the crotchets in the top voice; we reproduce it in this way in the main text. In GE (→FE) it was moved under the minims in the bottom voice (b-c1), which was inaccurately reproduced in EE, by combining d1-c1.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , EE inaccuracies

b. 335-336

composition: Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

Slurs in FE (→EE), contextual interpretation

Slurs in GE
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Before the first semiquaver of bar 336 (which starts the new line), FE (→EE) has an ending of slur from above. However, the slur in bar 335 reaches only the last semiquaver in that bar, almost certainly by mistake – cf. slurs in bars 327-328. The inconsistency of slurring was removed in GE by omitting the end of slur in bar 336, and starting a new slur from the 1st note of this bar. This is certainly an arbitrary revision.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies , Uncertain slur continuation

b. 337

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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In EE, GC and FE1 there is no  augmenting a2 to
a2. This obvious inaccuracy must have been already present in the autograph (such inaccurate notation is quite common in Chopin's autographs). The accidental was added in GE and FE2, which must have been done by the revisors. Compare b. 345.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies , FE revisions , Inaccuracies in GC

b. 339

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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There is no bass clef at the end of the bar in EE, GC or FE. Given this consistency of sources we may cpnclude that this error was already present in the two autographs. Since the chords of RH in b. 340 are notated on two staves, lack of the clef does not pose any problems for the text interpetation (in EE and FE b. 340 is printed as the new line of the text with the right clef at the beginning, which minimises the consequences of this omission). The clef was supplemented in GE. We can find similar inaccuracy in b. 347.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies , Errors of GC

b. 340-341

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

in A (→FC→GE1)

in FC (→GE1)

in FE

in EE

in GE2 (→GE3)
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In the main text we suggest that the range of the  mark be compliant with Chopin's entries in all three analogous places (b. 348-349, 442-443, 450-451), since we are convinced that the mark having been shifted in this place is a standard inaccuracy of notation. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Scope of dynamic hairpins , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies