mUltimate Chopin

Text Compare Notes Sources Description

Issues : EE inaccuracies

b. 394-395

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

No pedal signs in FE

  in GE

    in EE
..

The missing pedal change at the transition between the bars must be an inadvertence. Consequently, inaccuracies in pedalling marks may be assumed also in bars 390, 398 and 399, although in that cases, they do not suggest an erroneous performance. A corresponding addition was introduced both in GE and EE (in the latter, inaccurately).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies

b. 397-398

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

 in bar 397 in A (→GE→FE)

 in both bars in EE
..

The  marking was placed in FE before the chord on the 3rd beat in bar 397. This kind of placement is not something unusual, yet, together with the small gaps between the notes, it could have misled the engraver or reviser of EE. Repetition of  in bar 389, also before the c2 minim, suggests that such a placement was considered to be more likely due to the absence of any accents on these minims, differently than in analogous bars 53-54 and 57-58, in which EE has a  and bars 401-402, which include accents.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , EE inaccuracies

b. 398-399

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt III

2 slurs from 2nd note in FE

Different slurs in GE1 (→GE2) & EE

2 slurs from first note in GE3
..

Two subsequent slurs starting later than in the adjacent figures must be an inaccuracy of FE, partially repeated in GE1 (→GE2) and EE. In the main text, we move the beginnings of the slurs to over the 1st semiquaver, in accordance with the musical sense and analogous figures. Such a revision was introduced already in GE3.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies

b. 400

composition: Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

No mark in FE (→EE1)
..

The lack of staccato dot in FE (→EE1) must be regarded as an inaccuracy. The mark was added already by the revisers of GE and EE2 (→EE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies

b. 408

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt III

FE, literal reading

FE, contextual interpretation

FE, different interpretation

GE & EE
..

When interpreted literally, the ambiguous, in terms of rhythmic values and division into parts, notation of FE may have a few possible versions. It is the interpretation based on a possible reconstruction of the notation of [A], rhythmically consistent, that we adopt as both the text of FE and the main text.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , EE inaccuracies